IN PICTURES
In a historic presentation, West Papuan leaders representing their newly unified movement, have applied for membership of the MSG. Dan McGarry captures the ceremony in a photo essay.
Do Pacific islands need to ‘walk the talk’ on climate?
Small island states that contribute little to the carbon problem globally need to change their ways as they are demanding of big nations. The apparent conflict between profiting from the oil company industry and demanding it be phased down must be addressed.
Supporting Timor-Leste and the Pacific in UN negotiations
PiPP is supporting the Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to the United Nations and other Pacific delegations in the final phase of the intergovernmental negotiations that will define the post-2015 development agenda.
Transforming global development
Negotiations on what should succeed the Millennium Development Goals resumed in New York this week. Negotiations are well under way to decide what development goals will succeed the MDGs, and this time there has been much broader input.
Behind the elusive mythmaking over Fiji, West Papua
On the eve of a vital meeting in Port Vila planning a more unified stance among disparate Melanesian solidarity groups in December 2014, the issue of Papua and Indonesian human rights violations was also the topic of a conference almost 2200 km away in New Zealand.
West Papuans unite to form new umbrella group
In a gathering of West Papuan leaders in Vanuatu, the different factions of the independence movement united in one group and one struggle under the new body called the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.