Regional Archive September 2019
Fiji Launches First Climate Change Relocation Fund
The Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has launched the world's first relocation fund for people displaced by climate change.
16 Children File Landmark Complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
Sixteen child petitioners from 12 countries around the world, including children from the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and Palau, presented a landmark official complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child on Monday in New York to protest lack of government action on the climate crisis.
PNG Media Prepped to Tell “fish-story” Ahead of Seventh Pacific Tuna Forum
Media personnel in Papua New Guinea now have a better understanding of the significance and value of tuna fisheries after three days of a fisheries-related media workshop. The workshop was held from 9-11 September in Port Moresby and brought together around twenty journalists, from Divine Word University.
FFA-led Surveillance Covers Area Larger Than Russia
The third Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency-led monitoring, control and surveillance operation for the year – Operation Island Chief 2019 (OPIC19) covered an area greater than the size of Russia, the biggest country in the world.