Measuring global happiness
Posted on 22 March 2022
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the World Happiness Report, which uses global survey data to report on how people evaluate their own lives in more than 150 countries…
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Pacific food insecurity a growing concern
Posted on 21 March 2022
Food insecurity is a growing challenge for Pacific Island countries in the face of more frequent climate disasters, rising sea levels, and the economic fallout of Covid-19 lockdowns. This was…
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Nuclear contamination an ongoing concern in the Pacific
Posted on 21 March 2022
A new scientific report suggests that the radioactive element strontium 90 is a more significant contamination factor in the northern Marshall Islands than has been acknowledged to date by the…
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TRIPS waiver compromise
Posted on 21 March 2022
Reactions have been mixed about a report that a compromise has been reached on a waiver for vaccine intellectual property rights.
Oxfam’s Head of Inequality Policy and co-chair of…
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Oxfam’s Head of Inequality Policy and co-chair of…
What is the cost of Pacific tourism reopening?
Posted on 21 March 2022
With New Zealand’s borders opening next month to vaccinated Australians, and to vaccinated visitors from visa waiver countries from May 1, international tourism is slowly but surely back on the menu.
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Cash is best for Ukraine
Posted on 21 March 2022
CID has been advocating primarily for cash donations in the Pacific with recent disasters, we are now seeing the message being repeated in Europe with the crisis in Ukraine. There…
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Hong Kong Covid crisis
Posted on 21 March 2022
Omicron is tearing through densely populated Hong Kong, with hospitals and mortuaries being overloaded. Over 5,000 deaths and more than 1 million cases have been reported among its population of…
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US declares Myanmar Army committed genocide against Rohingya
Posted on 21 March 2022
In the last 24 hours, the US Administration has declared Myanmar’s mass killing of the Rohingya Muslim population to be a “genocide”. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, made…
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Bid for critical aid funding to Yemen falls far short
Posted on 21 March 2022
The United Nations held a High-Level Pledging Event last Wednesday, in a bid to rally donor support for Yemen, which has seen life-saving funding dry up in recent weeks. The…
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Podcast: Barriers to vaccination: inequities & false information
Posted on 16 March 2022
Useful Outsiders podcast episode 2
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A rich and important discussion about some of the barriers to Covid vaccination in NZ and the Pacific. The speakers delve into issues around vaccine…
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A rich and important discussion about some of the barriers to Covid vaccination in NZ and the Pacific. The speakers delve into issues around vaccine…