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Frank Bainimarama Stop Being A Terrorist

An Australian academic has been taken into custody in Fiji and is being questioned by the military after giving several media interviews on the current political situation. Professor Brij Lal, a long-time academic at Ca…
UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY ON MILITARY REGIMES

Unfortunately, military regimes are no better and usually worse than the civilian regimes they replace. They are authoritarian, repressive and decidedly undemocratic. They are not accountable to the public; they r…
FOOD SECURITY

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on October 16th, a day on which the organisation was founded in 1945. The choice of the theme for this year's celebration i…
Fiji to be Slave Food Supplier for Chinese Army Navy

We are happy now we have Fertile Land, Sun and Fiji Water We can grow and eat OUR OWN FOOD. They know we are facing a Global Food Crisis. They know WW3 is looming. They need to feed their Army and Navy wh…
Fiji Coup Conspirator Chairs UN Working Group on Mercenaries

The following information was released by the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG): Representatives of States from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East are convening on 26 and 27 October in Bangkok at the invitation o…
Lawyers Duty to Report Human Rights Issues in Fiji

Pacific countries are required to report to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations and other UN member states on their human rights records under the Universal Period Review (UPR), a new human rights reporting me…
UNITED STATES SMART POWER AND CHINA

WHEN Hillary Clinton said in January that America should exercise “smart power”, Chinese officials and commentators pricked up their ears. Here was a neat way of describing, some of them said, what China too was try…
IMF TO PROMOTE PEACE WHAT ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS IN FIJI ?

The International Monetary Fund issued the following speech from IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Over the past year or so, the global financial crisis has been the subject of intense debate. But today, in…
WORLD COPS TO PARTNER WITH UN PEACEKEEPING

INTERPOL and the United Nations have partnered to secure international commitments for greater support for the role of police in peacekeeping operations worldwide. This increased support is seen as a key element to rest…
Women Weave Wisdom Confront Crisis and Forge the Future

The following information was released by the United Nations: Although overall progress has been uneven 15 years after the landmark international women’s conference in Beijing, Asia and the Pacific has led the way in sha…