Nearly 60 percent of women and girls aged 15-49 in Papua New Guinea have experienced some form of physical sexual violence, almost twice the global average. A health support group, backed by the UN, is educating young people and supporting (...)
Yessie Mosby is one of the so-called Torres Strait Eight, a group from the Pacific Islands which lodged a complaint with the UN Human Rights Council, that Australia is not doing enough to protect their people from climate change, in the first ever (...)
One meteor traveled quite a long way from home to visit Earth.
Researchers discovered the first known interstellar meteor to ever hit Earth, according to a recently released United States Space Command document. An interstellar meteor is a space (...)
In Papua New Guinea, defending women accused of sorcery, has become a life-threatening occupation. The UN and European Union-run Spotlight Initiative is promoting legislation that will protect threatened human rights defenders in the country, who (...)
The UN chief has called for $100 million each year in assessed contributions from Member States, to fund the world body's peacebuilding activities, describing such an investment as "a bargain" compared with the punitive costs of (...)
Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans have been taking place in Indonesia, UN-appointed rights experts said on Tuesday, citing child killings, disappearances, torture and enforced mass displacement.
"Between April and November 2021, we have (...)
The UN Joint SDG Fund announced on Monday an additional $54.5 million in investments for projects across five countries, to try and get the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) back on track.
"The Fund is in a position to bridge the gap in giving (...)
At least 19 people have died after a karaoke bar in Indonesia's West Papua was set ablaze following a brawl between rival gangs of youths in the area, police in the provincial capital of Sorong said on Tuesday.
Two groups attacked each other with (...)
Mountaineer Yousef Al-Refai managed to complete the seven volcanic summits challenge ending with the summiting of the Mount Sidley in Antarctica, making him the 24th individual in the world, the first Middle Eastern Arab, and the youngest person to (...)
The Sea Women of Melanesia train local women to monitor and assess the impacts of widespread coral bleaching on some of the world's most endangered reefs using marine science and technology.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — To most people, fins, (...)
Reprisals against human rights defenders were in the spotlight on Wednesday as UN independent experts documented instances of abuse in Indonesia and Pakistan.
Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor said Indonesia must immediately stop threatening and (...)
A Caribbean-based prime minister, a scientist, a group of indigenous women, and an entrepreneur were announced on Tuesday as this year's winners of the United Nations' Champions of the Earth awards.
According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), (...)
From rising sea temperatures to deadly and devastating storms and floods, climate change is increasing threats in the southwest Pacific, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report published on Wednesday.
The State of the Climate in (...)
Massive floods, devastating wildfires, and rising seas – along with the countless lives they take and livelihoods they upend – are realities many nations are already facing. Voices from the front lines of climate change and its impacts were center (...)
Australia is to stop sending asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea (PNG), marking an end to its controversial detention regime in the nation, BBC reported.
PNG is one of two Pacific countries paid by Canberra to detain asylum seekers and refugees who (...)
Health leaders agree that a world without COVID-19 will not be possible until everyone has equal access to vaccines. More than 4.6 million people have died from the virus since it swept across the globe from the beginning of 2020, but it's expected (...)
Japan's recent revision to its Strategic Energy Plan (SEP) lowers the targeted share of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the country's power generation mix in 2030 to 20% from 27% previously, as a measure to cut emissions.
A Rystad Energy analysis (...)
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's easternmost region in Papua on Monday, the United States Geological Survey said, but there were no tsunami warnings or any immediate damage report.
The earthquake struck at a relatively (...)
Small island nations across the world are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, and their problems have been accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has severely affected their economies, and their capacity to protect themselves from possible (...)
Indonesia on Wednesday recorded 34,379 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,040 deaths over the past 24 hours, marking the highest single-day daily infections as well as virus-related fatalities since the outbreak of the pandemic.
It was the third (...)
The global COVID-19 pandemic could provide "opportunities" to improve health care in Papua New Guinea (PNG) after the crisis is over, according to the United Nations' most senior official in the southwestern Pacific Ocean nation.
UN Resident (...)
COVID-19 infections are approaching their highest rates since the pandemic began just over a year ago, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday.
"Around the world, cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying (...)
COVID-19 infections are approaching their highest rates since the pandemic began just over a year ago, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday.
"Around the world, cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying (...)
Around the world, the opportunities for women to lead successful, financially secure lives are being limited by government legislation, company policies and deep-rooted misogyny. The UN is leading efforts to give women more access to digital (...)
Even though 2020 was the year oil and gas producers reduced output to balance the pandemic-hit demand, Australasia's production did not only stay resilient, but it also rose a little, a Rystad Energy report reveals. We estimate combined petroleum (...)
