Pacific Waves for 3 June 2021

Samoa's Court of Appeal has voided the challenge of an HRPP women's candidate that she was wrongly removed as an MP; An independent journalist in Vanuatu says the new criminal defamation law is a ill-considered legislative overstep that will have negative human rights implications in the long-term; Niue's first delivery of Covid-19 vaccines has arrived. The small number of innoculations is being used to vaccinate the vaccinators and other key people.