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ADB, Cook Islands Sign $30 Million Loan for Sustainable, Resilient and Inclusive Development

ADB, Cook Islands Sign $30 Million Loan for Sustainable, Resilient and Inclusive Development

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (18 December 2024) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of the Cook Islands have signed a $30 million loan agreement to support the Cook Islands in building resilience and spur sustainable growth. The...

ADB, Cook Islands Enhance the Resilience of Rarotonga Airport Operations

ADB, Cook Islands Enhance the Resilience of Rarotonga Airport Operations

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (13 December 2024) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $2 million grant agreement with the Government of the Cook Islands to boost support for an ongoing project, which is improving Cook Islands resilience to...

Cook Islands Showcase Successful Invasive Species Management Initiatives at the Sixth PILN Meeting

Cook Islands Showcase Successful Invasive Species Management Initiatives at the Sixth PILN Meeting

15 August 2024, Rarotonga, Cook Islands - Island nations face daily challenges from various invasive animal and plant species, which significantly threaten biodiversity, climate resilience, and island ecosystems. These invasive species can also...

Cook Islands Host the Sixth Pacific Invasive Learning Networking (PILN) Meeting

Cook Islands Host the Sixth Pacific Invasive Learning Networking (PILN) Meeting

12 August 2024, Rarotonga Cook Islands – Over 70 invasive species professionals and practitioners from across the Pacific region have converged in Rarotonga as part of the Pacific Invasive Learning Network (PILN) sixth meeting hosted by the...

Cook Islands Enhances Invasive Species Management to Boost Climate Resilience

Cook Islands Enhances Invasive Species Management to Boost Climate Resilience

The Cook Islands is stepping up its fight against invasive species to protect its biodiversity and strengthen its ability to cope with climate change. Invasive species are the main cause of biodiversity loss in the Pacific, harming ecosystem...

Banyan Software Acquires Healthcare Technology Leader, Medtech Global

Banyan Software Acquires Healthcare Technology Leader, Medtech Global

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, February 20, 2025 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Banyan Software, a global software investor with a growing footprint in Australia and New Zealand, has acquired Medtech Global, a leading provider of health technology to the...

Cook Islands joins plastic treaty proposal for chemicals of concern

Cook Islands joins plastic treaty proposal for chemicals of concern

26 April 29024, Ottawa Canada - The Cook Islands, a large ocean island state is making her mighty voice heard at the Plastics Treaty negotiations now underway. The island nation, with Rwanda, has co-sponsored a proposal by Norway on how to address...

ADB Provides $41 Million to Help Cook Islands, FSM, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu Respond to Disasters

ADB Provides $41 Million to Help Cook Islands, FSM, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu Respond to Disasters

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (28 June 2024) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $41 million in contingent disaster financing to help the Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Tuvalu, and Vanuatu respond to...

Small Islands Developing States leadership magnified by the Cook Islands at SIDS4

Small Islands Developing States leadership magnified by the Cook Islands at SIDS4

28 May 2024, Antigua and Barbuda - The leadership of Small Islands Developing States was highlighted by the Cook Islands Prime Minister who is the Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders, at the fourth International Conference on Small Islands...

Partnerships formalised at Plastics Treaty talks to empower a resilient Cook Islands

Partnerships formalised at Plastics Treaty talks to empower a resilient Cook Islands

25 April 2024, Ottawa Canada - Enhancing Cook Islands capacity and learning opportunities when it comes to science, environment and legal policy is at the core of a partnership between the National Environment Service and Monash University in...

At midway point of INC-3, Cook Islands continues to push for ambitious treaty

At midway point of INC-3, Cook Islands continues to push for ambitious treaty

17 November 2023, Nairobi Kenya - At the midway point of the third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) to develop an international legally binding instrument (ILBI) on plastic pollution, including in the marine...

Cook Islands and Federated States of Micronesia join over 50 countries calling for an end to plastic pollution by 2040

Cook Islands and Federated States of Micronesia join over 50 countries calling for an end to plastic pollution by 2040

30 May 2023, Paris France – Two Pacific Island countries, the Cook Islands and Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), have joined Ministers from 56 countries to sign a Ministerial Statement calling for an end to global plastic pollution by 2040....

Cook Islands’ original path toward equality

Cook Islands’ original path toward equality

On April 14th members of the Cook Islands rainbow community assembled at parliament with colourful flags and cautious optimism. It turned out to be the day they’d been working toward for the last twelve years. Parliament removed laws prohibiting...

Cook Islands calls for ambitious targets to reverse and end plastic pollution

Cook Islands calls for ambitious targets to reverse and end plastic pollution

24 April 2023, Rarotonga, Cook Islands - “Saying No to single-use plastics” is not enough, much more must be done by our global community to address the plastic crisis we now face. Recognising this, the UN Environment Assembly passed a resolution...

Guide to Optimal Nutrition for Vegans

Guide to Optimal Nutrition for Vegans

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UNAIDS welcomes the decriminalisation of same-sex relations by the Cook Islands parliament

UNAIDS welcomes the decriminalisation of same-sex relations by the Cook Islands parliament

BANGKOK, 15 April 2023—UNAIDS applauds today’s decision by Cook Islands lawmakers to remove laws prohibiting consensual sexual acts between men from the Crimes Act. By decriminalising sex between same-sex partners, the Pacific nation joins a...

Cook Islands and Vanuatu Announce COVID-19 Restriction Free Travel

Cook Islands and Vanuatu Announce COVID-19 Restriction Free Travel

Home Cook Islands and Vanuatu Announce COVID-19 Restriction Free Travel The Cook Islands and Vanuatu have joined Fiji, New Caledonia, Tahiti, and Papua New Guinea in lifting all COVID-19 travel restrictions to international travel and tourism in...

Dean and the Cook Islands Condom Car

Dean and the Cook Islands Condom Car

On the island of Rarotonga, the main island of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific, a little white van makes its rounds on the palm-tree lined circular road. The van, run by the Cook Islands Family Welfare Association (CIFWA), stops off at...

Birth Registration Can Be Boosted by Deploying More Health Workers

Birth Registration Can Be Boosted by Deploying More Health Workers

Civil registration systems are vital for providing legal identity and accessing essential services, as shown by discrepancies in COVID-19 mortality data and the ongoing challenges in birth registration, especially in poorer communities. One of the...

PRESS RELEASE – Pacific Heads of Health: Weave the health mat with threads of action.

PRESS RELEASE – Pacific Heads of Health: Weave the health mat with threads of action.

The 15th Pacific Heads of Health Meeting (PHoH) convenes in Apia, Samoa today, and was officially opened by the Prime Minister of Samoa, Honourable Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa and Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional...

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