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Tuvalu PM Teo: Peace must begin at home'
The Pacific Island Times
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July 27, 2025
(PacNews)--Tuvalu Prime Minister, Feleti Teo says peace in the Pacific cannot be achieved while women live in fear and children experience abuse, urging leaders to embed gender equality and social inclusion into the heart of the region’s new Ocean...
New Australia-Vanuatu deal won’t replicate Falepili-style pact, says analyst
Asia Pacific Report
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August 18, 2025
A Pacific analyst and commentator says it is unlikely that Vanuatu will agree to any exclusive rights in the new security and economic pact with Australia.Senior ministers of both countries, including deputy prime ministers Richard Marles and...
Pacific Island Nation Of Tuvalu May Go Under The Waves In 25 Years
StratNews Global
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August 1, 2025
Home Asia Pacific Island Nation Of Tuvalu May Go Under The Waves In 25... While the pacific island nation of Tuvalu is at a risk of being submerged, countries like Maldives and India are also feeling the heat of climate change and rising sea...
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Tuvalu faces exodus: Sea rising, 80% people seek Australia’s climate visa for relocation
Firstpost
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July 23, 2025
More than 80% of Tuvalu’s population has applied for Australia’s climate visa under a landmark migration pact, as rising seas threaten the Pacific nation. The Falepili Union offers Tuvaluans relocation, rights and defence support amid worsening...
When the Law Catches Up: How a Youth-Led Call From the Pacific Is Redefining Environmental Justice
Earth.Org
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August 1, 2025
“In the face of threats to international law and the growing tendency to sweep climate change off the political agenda, there has been an urgent need for legal clarity on the obligations of states,” writes Léa Weimann, co-lead of Youth for Ecocide...
Australia’s courts say climate change is a political problem. The ICJ just made it a legal issue
Crikey
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July 29, 2025
They were two decisions, from two separate courts, issued both a week and a world apart. One, a class action lawsuit filed in 2021 by a First Nations community in the Torres Strait, alleged the Australian government had failed to meaningfully...
Tuvalu Prime Minister calls for Pacific unity amid Taiwan tensions
Pacific News Service
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Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo is urging Pacific leaders to remain united as the region faces potential diplomatic tensions concerning Taiwan’s participation in the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum in Honiara. Speaking exclusively to Pacific...
Australia vows to stand with Tuvalu as climate change worsens
The Mandarin
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July 29, 2025
Penny Wong welcomes Tuvalu’s first diplomatic mission to Canberra, marking a new chapter in climate cooperation under the Falepili Union Treaty. (l-r) Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo, and Tuvalu Minister for...
Climate change policy too important for frivolous bills in parliament
RiotACT
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July 28, 2025
The net-zero emissions target was the subject of a lot of hot air in Parliament House on Monday. Photo: Michelle Kroll. There were a number of high-level, constructive contributions to the ongoing climate change debate in and around Parliament...
Fiji minister urges compassion after baby left in sanitary bin
RNZ
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July 29, 2025
Lautoka Hospital. Photo: Supplied/Fiji MOH A call has been made for compassion for the mother of a baby found in a sanitary bin in a Fiji university hostel. Fiji police say the baby was taken to Lautoka Aspen Hospital, where he was admitted in...
A legal tipping point on climate
The Ecologist
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July 29, 2025
Not only does this provide powerful support to the case for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty which seeks to draw a line under new exploration and production by the industry, it is a very small step from this to similar implications for...
New High Commission for Tuvalu delivers on our elevated partnership
The National Tribune
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July 27, 2025
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade We are pleased to welcome the Prime Minister of Tuvalu, the Hon Feleti Penitala Teo OBE, to Australia to officially open the Tuvalu High Commission in Australia. During his visit, Prime Minister Feleti Teo...
Project targets poverty
Islands Business
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August 17, 2025
FOR too long the Pacific has watched others create stories about the region’s people. The tide has started to turn as an upcoming filmmaker launches his film, Bati, approaching Pacific issues through a Pasifika lens. Born in Tuvalu, raised and...
Why 80% Of Tuvalu Wants To Move To Australia? The Falepili Union Climate Visa Explained
Times Now
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July 26, 2025
In the face of the existential threat posed by climate change-induced rising sea levels, Tuvalu's population is now seeking new land, and Australia appears to be their destination. As Tuvalu's already small land area sinks into the ocean, about...
India’s climate demands were once moral claims. Now ICJ says they’re international law
The Print
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July 26, 2025
When a group of Pacific Island law students first proposed in 2019 that the International Court of Justice should weigh in on climate change, few imagined the world’s top court would respond with one of the most sweeping legal opinions in its...
As Tuvalu sinks, Australia offers refuge to a third of its population
Domus
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This new form of diplomatic infrastructure combining climate finance, strategic cooperation, and most notably, a right to “slow migration”, will progressively grant Tuvaluan citizens access to universities, healthcare, employment, and freedom of...
International law is now on our side: Australia must follow Pacific’s lead on climate action
Renew Economy
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July 25, 2025
This week the International Court of Justice delivered a strong advisory opinion that States have a clear legal obligation to cut emissions, prevent harm to the climate system and in some cases, pay for historical damages caused by their...
Historic missed opportunity, plastic treaty talks end in Geneva with no…
Pacific News Service
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The world came to Geneva with hope. Eleven days of tense, high-stakes negotiations — hailed as the most consequential environmental talks since the Paris Climate Accord — were meant to deliver a historic treaty to end plastic pollution. But, as...
A victory rooted in the Pacific: ICJ ruling signals legal shift on climate obligations
The Pacific Island Times
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July 24, 2025
States and major emitters have binding legal obligations to cut greenhouse gas emissions, protect human rights and repair the harm already inflicted, the International Court of Justice declared in the long-awaited advisory opinion sought by...
Climate crisis to legal battles
New Age Bangladesh
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| IUCN IN A quiet courtroom in the Hague, history stirred. A legal ripple, as gentle as a sigh from the Pacific, reached the shorelines of global governance. The International Court of Justice declared, in an advisory fashion though, that one...