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15 July 2014
Each child of a plan - enabling environment for adolescent pregancies
THE issue of adolescent pregnancy received prominent coverage in The Sunday Times (25/05/2014) based on Ministry for Health records confirming 1624 adolescent pregnancies in…
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15 July 2014
Be in the picture of the post-2015 development agenda: the selfie campaign
From German chancellor Angela Merkel to Pope Francis, people of all walks of life who have access to smart phones are doing it: taking selfies, one can perhaps safely say, is…
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15 July 2014
Changing families - a paper by Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi on International Day of the Family
THE proposition that the family is the basic unit of society is an unremarkable one. However in the context of the Pacific, the term has long been understood as referring to…
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04 July 2014
Young Pacific islanders to envision the future they want at “My World, My SIDS: YES”
NADI, Fiji, 4 July, 2013 - Thirty young Pacific islanders aged from 12 to 30 years old gathered in Nadi today to discuss issues close to their heart and envision the future…
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11 June 2014
Pacific consultation on Violence against Women studies, May 14-16 2012
A 3-day consultation, Data for action, involved knowledge exchange between representatives of countries which had already implemented the study and those who intend to. The…
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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…
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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…
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16 May 2014
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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…
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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…
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