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 ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
Crown Finally Bows To Tupuna Maunga
The Crown agreed to formally give up ownership of Taranaki Maunga, instead sharing management of the national park with the region’s iwi and officially recognising the peaks as tupuna. The peaks ...
Architect Selected To Design New Pavilion At Blenheim’s A&P Park
A Nelson architect has been picked to design the new pavilion planned for Marlborough’s A&P Park after a dozen proposals were ...