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A survey backs calls for New Zealand to speak up over Nauru human rights concerns; Fiji's DPP says no charges for prominent people arrested and detained; The Cook Islands are rocked by a multiple… Read more Audio

Refugee children engaging in self harm and attempting suicide on Nauru has prompted a psychiatrist to expose the damage caused by Australia's offshore detention; Violence between refugees and locals… Read more Audio

Caritas calls for rethink on climate aid as shortages start to bite; French Polynesia's government has put its case for the territory to be removed from the United Nations decolonisation list; a… Read more Audio

Third opposition MP suspended from Fiji parliament; Guam Catholic Church could face abuse lawsuits as soon as next week; PACER-Plus a tool to secure western influence in the Pacific; Hawaiian group… Read more Audio

Aid organisations in Fiji are building structures to withstand the strongest cyclones; Pacific island countries have called for help in dealing with refugees at a major UN gathering in New York; The… Read more Audio

An eventful week of politics in Fiji; New Caledonia and French Polynesia join the Pacific Islands Forum; a Tongan cabinet minister sacked for unacceptable behaviour; new legislation could help uncover… Read more Audio

The Pacific's Commonwealth countries are being promised help to implement global targets set for development; Allegations of racism and discrimination among New Zealand's midwives and staff in… Read more Audio

A Fiji whistleblower left for dead; A former Nauru president is unable to leave the island for medical treatment after having his passport cancelled; British MPs call on Australia to rethink their… Read more Audio

People on Fiji's devastated Koro Island are foraging for wild food, milling their own timber and sewing fishing nets out of vines to survive six months after Cyclone Winston; There's a tone of… Read more Audio

It remains unclear where men held at Australia's offshore processing camps on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island will go when the centre is closed; human rights professor says closure of Manus detention… Read more Audio

Fiji's sevens team creates Olympic history; Canberra discredits claims of extensive abuse on Nauru; Life in limbo ends for boat people on tiny Micronesian island; Tahiti's Protestant Church plan to… Read more Audio

Australia's government has been criticised for shirking responsibility for the plight of asylum seekers and refugees caught up in its offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island, Papua New… Read more Audio