AI Tech Deployed After Chemical Burn Incident
AI technology with real time hazard alerts is central to a new safety commitment WorkSafe New Zealand has accepted from the well-known household brand, Ecostore. It comes after a worker suffered ...
Low-cost Ways To Grow Auckland’s Infrastructure
Statistics New Zealand’s population projections show that Auckland is expected to grow nearly 30% over the next 25 years, so it’s crucial we figure out ways to reap the benefits of population density ...
Myanmar: UN Chief Urges Return To Civilian Rule As Crisis Worsens
Those in conflict-affected areas, including Chin, Kachin, Rakhine and Sagaing regions, are suffering the worst levels of food insecurity. The collapse of Myanmar’s economy, combined with access ...
African Schools Gear Up For The AI Revolution
“It is obvious that our country is lagging behind in terms of new technologies for one reason or another,” says Benjamin Sivanzire, a teacher in Beni, North Kivu Province. “Many parts of the DRC do ...
Emergency Humanitarian Waiver To Foreign Assistance Pause
Implementers of existing life-saving humanitarian assistance programs should continue or resume work if they have stopped, subject to the directions outlined in this waiver. This resumption is ...
FAO Boosts Vanilla Farmers’ Association In PNG, Propelling Future Growth Through Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Exchange
For farmer leaders, the exchange created a sense of ownership. “The idea is that the farmers themselves must be connected to support each other when the project ends and this collaboration is a good ...
ASEAN: End Complicity With Myanmar Junta, Demand Democracy And Human Rights
CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance calls on ASEAN to stop enabling Myanmar junta’s continuing brutal oppression against its citizens. Four years into the coup regime, the Association of ...
Access Now Demands U.S. Lift Sanctions Blocking Syria’s Digital Recovery
Recent developments, including the European Union’s decision to ease certain sanctions on Syria, highlight the urgent need for further relief, and addressing digital barriers is critical to supporting ...
UN Human Rights Office Launches US$500 Million Appeal To Reinvigorate Global Support For Human Rights
GENEVA (30 January 2025) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has launched a US$500 million funding appeal for 2025, to address global human rights needs.
Fiji’s HIV crisis is a regional challenge that demands a regional response
In the words of UNAIDS Asia Pacific Regional Director Eamonn Murphy, rising HIV infections in Fiji “put the entire Pacific region at risk”. Fiji’s minister of health declared an official HIV outbreak ...
Property Owner Wins Dispute Over Expansion Plans
In December 2021, the owner of a Jellicoe St property applied for a building consent to renovate and extend the commercial part of the building and change shared internal walls between the building’s ...
‘Bloody Horrific’: Worm Pest Gains Stronghold In Far North
The top-of-New Zealand’s biggest maize contractor says news of a potential increase in fall army worm populations is “bloody ...