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Amnesty International chief Agnes Callamard calls on New Zealand to lift its game
Responsible for Amnesty’s global strategy and leading its human rights work, Callamard is visiting New Zealand next week for the first time since taking up the role in 2021. As an activist dedicated to holding those in power to account, she’s...
Discriminatory Migration System Fails Pacific People Facing Climate Change And Disasters
Press Release – Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand Amnesty Internationals recommendations to the Aotearoa New Zealand Government are to help people to migrate with dignity or, if they choose, to stay on their islands with dignity....
Not nothing, not enough: is the Paris climate agreement working?
PARIS - Climate cooperation is facing a reckoning. Ten years after the landmark Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world fast approaches the deal's safer warming limit. With climate change already causing dangerous...
Not nothing, not enough: is the Paris Agreement working?
Climate cooperation is facing a reckoning. Ten years after the landmark Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world fast approaches the deal's safer warming limit. With climate change already causing dangerous extremes...
Adeang back as Nauru president
NEW Zealand is failing to protect those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in the Pacific islands. A report by human rights organisation, Amnesty International, says discriminatory migration policies tear families apart in New...
Why Australia Should Amplify the Pacific Region’s Voice in APEC
Climate diplomacy efforts in the Pacific are an integral part of Australian foreign policy under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. After taking office in 2022, Albanese formally reinstated an Australian ambassador for climate change. The ambassador...
Discriminatory Migration System Fails Pacific People Facing Climate Change And Disasters – Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand
Authorities in Aotearoa New Zealand are failing people most at risk of climate-related harm in the Pacific islands, subjecting them to discriminatory migration policies that tear families apart and disregard children’s rights, Amnesty...
Four Last Quarter Global Summits Aim To Redefine Sustainability
Four Global Summits Redefining Sustainability getty As 2025 winds down, the climate clock is no longer ticking, it is pounding. The world has five years left to deliver the 2030 targets, in the face of stubbornly high emissions, biodiversity loss,...
Young Kiwis call for climate action as govt sets methane targets
More than 15 young people from across New Zealand came together to deliver a message to the government last week, hoping it will reach the Conference of the Parties 30 (COP30) in Brazil next month. The 2025 Aotearoa Youth COP Statement was...
A decade after Paris Agreement, climate deal tested by broken promises and rising heat
PARIS, Oct 14 — Climate cooperation is facing a reckoning. Ten years after the landmark Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world fast approaches the deal’s safer warming limit. With climate change already causing...
Climate hysteria in the media has really got to stop
Reading the news, you would believe that the Great Barrier Reef -- the aquatic wonder off Australia's coast -- is on its deathbed, bleached beyond recognition by climate change. Recent headlines shouted in unison: "Great Barrier Reef suffers worst...
To graduate or not to graduate: Nepal faces dilemma over LDC upgrade
Kathmandu, Oct. 12: Amidst the estimated 3-5 per cent loss to the economy due to arson and vandalism of the public and private property and businesses during the Gen-Z movement in September this year, and fear of poor economic performance,...
News The Guardian ‘Humanitarian’ visa must be created for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate crisis, experts say
Climate and migration experts are calling for urgent action to create legal pathways for people displaced by the climate crisis, as a new report highlights the scale of the problem across the Pacific. Research by Amnesty International released on...
DOC NYC Unveils 16th Annual Film Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)
Christopher Nelius’ “Whistle,” about champion whistlers, will kick off the 16th annual DOC NYC film festival on Nov. 12. “Whistle,” which debuted at TIFF, is one of 200 films that will screen as part of DOC NYC’s main slate lineup, which includes...
2025 Lisbon Architecture Triennale ponders the (literal and figurative) weight of humanity
The 2025 Lisbon Architecture Triennale has opened, themed around the question: ‘How Heavy is the City?’ Curators John Palmesino and Ann-Sofia Rönnskog of Territorial Agency say the question ‘addresses issues of magnitude, spatial organisation,...
Global Healing Surge set for October, live services with Pastor Chris holds Worldwide October 24, 26
The world is poised for an unprecedented global outpouring of God’s healing power as the 15th edition of the Healing Streams Live Healing Services with Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is set to take place from Friday, October 24 to Sunday, October 26,...
Global Healing Surge Set For October: Live Healing Services With Pastor Chris Holds Worldwide October 24–26
1 The world is poised for an unprecedented global outpouring of God’s healing power as the 15th edition of the Healing Streams Live Healing Services with Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is set to take place from Friday, October 24 to Sunday, October 26,...
Live healing services with Pastor Chris gets October date
The world is poised for an unprecedented global outpouring of God’s healing power as the 15th edition of the Healing Streams Live Healing Services with Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is set to take place from Friday, October 24 to Sunday, October 26,...
When people are displaced by climate change, what rights do they have?
Climate change is a global emergency that touches every human on this planet. But its effects hit some people harder than others. People in low- and middle-income countries, coastal areas, river valleys, low-lying areas and island states, are on...
Hawaii leaders tout strong ties with Taiwan during Double Ten Day event
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - More than 200 members of the local Taiwanese community joined Hawaii leaders and lawmakers to celebrate Double Ten Day, Taiwan’s National Day, which falls on October 10. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in...