Vanuatu's Minister for Climate Change Ralph Regenvanu said that the extension of the project is "a slap in the face for Pacific Island countries who have repeatedly called on Australia to stop approving new fossil fuel projects".abc.net.au/pacific/progra…

anthony albanese in 2003:

Kneecap is not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.

This is powerful.

Kneecap, Irish History and Palestine: A cultural analysis

Much needed insights from this stellar lineup of Pacific authors on strategies for increasing Pacific Islander research and authorship in the academic literature. Appreciation to everyone making headway in this space! 𝗥𝘂𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗼 𝗩𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮 Romitesh Kant et al publish.csiro.au/PC/PC25011

To our sisters and brothers in the Torres Strait: We honour your strength and resilience, even as we recognise that you deserve far more than recognition; you deserve justice. pisfcc.org/news/we-stand-…

27 Pacific students started an ambitious quest in the most stubbornly optimistic way to take the world's biggest problem, climate change, to the world's highest court, the ICJ. Today, the court affirmed that climate chnage is a human rights issue under international law. #ICJAO

Vishal Prasad from Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change addresses the media after the historic advisory opinion from the ICJ on climate change.

Signed. Sealed. Delivered. The #ClimateICJAO is here! A very robust reasoning of everything we’ve fought for, and everything we’ve asked for. Read it here: bit.ly/ClimateICJAO This is #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ. This is history.

"For future generations, this opinion is a lifeline." Minister Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's Minister for Climate Change, and Vishal Prasad, Director of Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change, took a moment to reflect on today's historic ICJ ruling, which is the first to make it clear that nations have a legal

All of this has been possible by the determination and the leadership of the young people, the frontline communities, partners, allies, collaborators, well-wishers, and people and institutions who have shown care and given support. This is for all is us. Onwards. #ICJAO

Astounding victory on climate change legal obligations. ICJ rules unanimously that states have international legal obligations, including duty to cooperate, to prevent transboundary and environmental harm and to act with due diligence in the context of climate change.

Initial takeaways on the Climate ICJ AO. More detailed analysis coming soon! #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

Alongside global allies who joined Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and World's Youth for Climate Justice in the quest for #ClimateJustice, kudos and vinaka vakalevu to Vanuatu 🇻🇺 for their steadfast backing of Pacific students in their vision to seek #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ.

Here’s what Pacific people saying about today’s historic advisory opinion delivered by the CIJ_ICJ and the impact it has on their climate justice work in the region and beyond.

The haunted eyes of a starving child: possibly dead by the time you read this. Powerful page 1 not of an anti-Israel or anti-semitic paper but the UK's most conservative. The UN says 80% of Gazans who've died of malnutrition are children. How long will the world let this go on?

This campaign started in a classroom in Vanuatu and became a global movement. We should all be thankful for @PISFCC

The sheer intellectual collapse you have to experience to be faced with 122 international aid organisations telling you the same thing... ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZANS... only to decide they are ALL lying & that actually Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial for fraud, is telling the truth.

3 of our PISFCC leaders share their reflections on the ICJ’s historic advisory opinion. The Pacific led this campaign, and behind every leader is a village. From the Pacific to The Hague! Our team was there when history was made 🎉 #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ