calendar_today 21 May 2014

People economics - an Opinion-Editorial

AST week, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Peter O'Neill, attended a two-day haus krai or a traditional mourning ritual in the capital, Port Moresby. It was however…

calendar_today 16 May 2014

News

Paying in advance - an Opinion-Editorial

REPRESENTING 149 countries and 2200 organisations, 4500 participants and 411 (mainstream) journalists converged in Malaysia last week to regroup and strengthen individual and…

calendar_today 16 May 2014

2014 and beyond - an Opinion-Editorial

WHAT major event do you remember from 1994 - your first job or child perhaps? For the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), it is a defining year on our timeline because 179…

calendar_today 12 May 2014

Women should not die giving life - an article on maternal mortality

Whatever you've decided will fill your current 24 hours, 800 women will die within that same hour from pregnancy or childbirth complications; that's 33 women dying…

calendar_today 09 May 2014

Health access for all - affirming universal access to reproductive health

FIFTEEN Pacific Island nations including Papua New Guinea have reaffirmed their commitment to achieving universal access to reproductive health through continuing work with…

calendar_today 28 April 2014

Demystify topics surrounding sexual health, UNFPA staff urged

UNFPA Pacific, Suva (Fiji) April 24, 2014 - The management and staff of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pacific Sub-Regional Office have been encouraged to apply…

calendar_today 24 April 2014

A UNFPA Pacific humanitarian response in the Solomon Islands

The rising water level after three days of consistent heavy rainfall snuck up on Honiara families in the Solomon Islands from accounts of survivors, most of who remain in…

calendar_today 10 April 2014

Celebrated footprints - a feature article on the link between climate change and population dynamics

IN 2008, 1500 residents of Carteret Islands, a group of atolls of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG), had to be relocated becoming the world's…

calendar_today 27 March 2014

Capitalizing on our demographic dividend - a feature article

UNFPA Pacific, March 27 (2014) Suva - COUNTRIES blessed with sizeable youth population bases, like most of our Pacific island nations whose young people comprise a third of…