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7th SPC Heads of Fisheries meeting: climate change
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 12:22 pm | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, Wednesday 2 March 2011 – Four important fisheries meetings are being held at SPC Headquarters this week. On Monday 28 February, the steering committee meetings of three European Union-funded projects — SciCOFish, ... More >>
Nauru MPs commit to ratifying CEDAW
Monday, 7 December 2009, 3:14 pm | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
Monday 7 December 2009, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Suva Regional Office, Fiji – ‘CEDAW enables the full and complete development of a country through maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields,’ said the ... More >>
Young People Want Active Role In Youth Development
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 10:25 am | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
The new Human Development Programme Adviser for Youth at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Rose Maebiru, says, ‘Young people want to be recognised as equal partners in their development.’ More >>
Officials in Apia for 5th Pacific Conference
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 3:51 pm | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
Officials arrive in Apia to attend 5th Pacific Conference Monday 12 November 2007, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Conference, Apia, Samoa – Officials attending the 5th Conference of the Pacific Community have arrived in Apia, Samoa ... More >>
5th Exec. Board Meeting of Council of Pacific Arts
Friday, 3 August 2007, 3:08 pm | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
Countdown to region's largest cultural event begins... With just a year to go, preparations are well under way for the region's largest traditional and contemporary cultural event, the Festival of Pacific Arts. More >>
Marriage can put women at higher risk of HIV
Friday, 1 June 2007, 6:10 pm | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
SPC headquarters, Noumea, New Caledonia, Thursday May 31, 2007: Women are most at risk of contracting HIV from the men they should trust the most – their husbands. And biological differences between the sexes mean that women, especially young women, ... More >>
Political parity law “a success” in Pacific
Friday, 1 June 2007, 5:37 pm | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
SPCheadquarters, Noumea, New Caledonia,ThursdayMay31, 2007: The 2000 French law that required political parties to field equal numbers of men and women for elections has been “a real success” in the French Pacific, according to ground-breaking ... More >>
Sex and relationships: Talking openly about taboo
Friday, 1 June 2007, 5:28 pm | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
Thursday 31st May 2007- Twenty years since HIV first arrived in the Pacific and we are still seeing increasing numbers of people living with HIV in the region. Recent survey findings in Pacific countries showed high prevalence of sexually transmitted ... More >>
30 HIV tests conducted at SPC for World AIDS DAY
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 9:36 am | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
Noumea, Monday 4 December 2006 – More than 30 people took part in voluntary confidential counselling and testing on Saturday 2 December at SPC, which is half the average number of tests usually conducted in an entire month by the local health NGOs in ... More >>
Responding to HIV the Pacific way
Saturday, 28 October 2006, 4:55 pm | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
Responding to HIV the Pacific way Thursday 26 October 2006, Suva – The response to HIV and other STIs in the Pacific is equal to none other in the world, except perhaps for the region’s cousin in the Atlantic, the Caribbean. In both regions, ... More >>
Submissions to prevent and control diabetes call
Friday, 25 August 2006, 3:06 pm | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
Friday 25 August 2006, SPC Headquarters, Noumea, New Caledonia – The Western Pacific Declaration on Diabetes (WPDD) – a strategic alliance created to address the crippling and increasing burden of diabetes among the peoples of the Western Pacific region ... More >>
Meeting of Regional Heads of Plant Protection
Friday, 2 June 2006, 12:05 am | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
Pest and disease control ranks as a top priority for agricultural production in Pacific countries with the entry of new plant pests posing a direct threat to regional food security. Emerging issues in world trade agreements have a direct impact on Pacific ... More >>
Pacific research & realities feature at WIP meet
Friday, 21 April 2006, 9:52 am | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
SPC Press Release: For immediate release Pacific research and realities feature at WIP meeting Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Thursday 20 April – A 14-nation Pacific workshop this week will tackle strategies to advance women in politics (WIP) in a region where ... More >>