Hilda Heine

Nov 1, 2024 | context.news | Hilda Heine |Patrick V. Verkooijen

Global warming will wipe out small island states unless the COP29 summit allocates significantly more resources for adaptationHilda Heine is President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Professor Patrick Verkooijen is CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation. The 39 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that 65 million people call home are on the brink of climate extinction. Rising seas are swallowing up the very land on which they live.

Aug 3, 2024 | samoaobserver.ws | Leilani Tuala-Warren |Nick Agar |Hilda Heine |Catherine Wilson

In its 2024 National Defence Strategy, the Australian government outlined a requirement to hold adversaries at greater risk at an increased distance from Australian territory – that is, the Australian Defence Force was given the task of developing the capability to hit targets at great distances. In the accompanying Integrated Investment program, “targeting and long-range strike” was allocated 8% of capability investment in the decade to 2034.

Aug 2, 2024 | samoaobserver.ws | Leisha Lister |Indira Rosenthal |Hilda Heine |Catherine Wilson

Yazidis in Australia and around the world have been on a ten-year quest for justice for the crimes perpetrated against them, victims of an ISIS genocide in Iraq and Syria. Nadia Murad, 21 years old when ISIS overran her village in Iraq and sold into sexual slavery before escaping, was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for her advocacy for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. But this recognition only underscores the need for justice as a test for the international community.