Worldwide comparison of Internet prices in 2023 – how much does Internet cost in...
Source: Picodi
Picodi New Zealand analyst team checked the price lists of 364 internet service providers in 85 countries worldwide and created a ranking of...
UNICEF – At least 5 million children at the brink in Darfur as unchecked...
Source: UNICEF
In the last seven months of fighting in Sudan, reported cases of children killed and injured in Darfur spiked 550 per cent when...
33 CHILDREN BORN INTO HUNGER EVERY MINUTE IN 2023 – Save the Children
Source: Save The Children
Sifa*,33, in the DRC breastfeeding her newborn – Photo: Baraa Shkeir/ Save the Children
New Save the Children analysis found that more...
WWF calls on countries to stand firm as delaying tactics drive global plastic pollution...
Source: World Wildlife Fund
The third round of UN global plastic pollution treaty talks ended with no plan for how to move the negotiations forward,...
Landmark Oceans Futures Platform Projects the Arctic, Gulf of Guinea, and Central Pacific to...
Source: World Wildlife Fund
Washington, D.C. (November 18, 2023) – World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced the launch of its Oceans Futures platform, a first-of-its-kind initiative...
Hunger: Help children keep on fighting for their futures
Source: Save The Children
Gabriella Waaijman at a distribution of hygiene kits in Türkiye. Gudmund de Stordeur Baudinet/Save the Children.
Right now the world is an...
Asia Pacific – The Asia Pacific Security Innovation Summit (APSI) commences in Wellington tomorrow...
Source: Asia Pacific Security Innovation (APSI)
The fifth annual Asia Pacific Security Innovation (APSI) Summit will be held in Wellington for the first time on...
Australia News – Like the phoenix, Australia’s giant birds of prey rise again from...
Source: Flinders University
Australia’s only vulture, and a fearsome extinct eagle, are among the earliest recorded birds of prey from the Pleistocene period more than...
Major outbreak of disease escalating in camps as 250,000 people, mostly children, return to...
Source: Save The Children
KABUL, 17 November 2023 – Thousands of Afghan refugees who have crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan in recent weeks are experiencing alarming...
Africa News – Statement by the African Development Bank Group following the illegal arrest...
SOURCE: African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
The Prime Minister of Ethiopia immediately acted when he learnt of the incident, ordered the immediate release of the...
Save the Children – Horn of Africa: Over 100 killed and 700,000 displaced by...
Source: Save the Children
Devastating flash floods have killed at least 111 people, including 16 children, across the Horn of Africa in recent weeks, with more...
Speech to Commonwealth Parliamentary Association – 18th Australian and Pacific Regional Seminar
Source: New Zealand Parliament
3 November, 2009, 10.30am , Select Committee Rooms 1/2 Bowen House.
Opening Address
The Hon Dr Lockwood Smith
Speaker of the House of Representatives
President...
