Kiribati Buys Land in Fiji / Kiribati achète du terrain en Fidji
Kiribati recently finalized the purchase of a piece of land on Fiji’s Vanua Levu island for their population to be able to eventually relocate as the Pacific nation is exposed to rising sea levels that can culminate in its (…)

Institute for Economics and Peace, 2014 Global Peace Index Institut pour l’économie et la paix, Index de la Paix Globale 2014
The Institute for Economics and Peace recently announced the release of the 2014 Global Peace Index for 18 June 2014. This edition focuses on “identifying countries (…)

The Marshall Islands, the small republic of the Pacific that was used as nuclear tests site after the World War II by the United States of America and that suffered and still suffers, as a consequence, long lasting impacts on the health of its population and the environment, filed separate (…)

By Patricia Pérez, President of Fundación Mas Paz, Menos Sida. Advisor to UN Women
The result of the second summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) which took place this January in Cuba was the “Habana Declaration”. This Declaration ratifies preexisting (…)

The Swiss National Bank revealed on January 16 its decision to divest from companies whose practices are ethically dubious. Those include companies which "produce internationally outlawed weapons, that massively violate fundamental human rights or that are responsible for systematic serious (…)