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The Loneliness of the Pro-Government Backbencher and the Precariousness of Simple Majority Rule in Tuvalu

In this paper, we analyse the twists and turns of Tuvalu central government politics, particularly since the two elections of 1993, and consider an alternative framework which entails the abandonment of the unhappy institutionalisation of the opposition as a government-in-waiting, the introduction of an eight member executive representing all the islands, and the adoption of a stronger oversight role for the islandbased Falekaupule.(Paulson Panapa and Jon Fraenkel, 2008)

http://rspas.anu.edu.au/papers/melanesia/discussion_papers/08_02.pdf

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CLIMATE CHANGE: Wanted - Homes For Small Island People

Tuvalu, home of some 12,000 people has appealed to the governments of Australia and New Zealand to open their doors for its citizens to find a new home, states the secretariat of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). (By Marwaan Macan-Markar, IPS News)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41848

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Tuvalu Association of NGOs

TANGOS is a community-based organization that encourages and assists NGOs in their work to enable human development within Tuvalu. TANGO encourages this to be undertaken in a sustainable manner, ensuring the long-term survival of their own organization and any projects in which it assists. TANGO seeks to ensure transparency and accountability for the activities for TANGO and other members of the civil society and offers leadership to NGOs by example and guidance.

http://tuvalutango.org/default.aspx

(Added: Thu Oct 18 2007   Hits: 57)

The Pacific: Online Communities

Within this website there are websites for Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Niue, Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands, Micronesia States, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu. The aim of each website is to establish an Online Community where people can chat, share information and relax, while preserving valuable information for generations to come. There is a news section, to inform members on what's going on; a forum, which allows members to find or share information; an articles section, divided into the categories of general information, language, myths and legends, and recipes and history; a review section, so that by sharing experiences, people can make informed decisions to use or avoid certain products and services and media; an entertainment section, where you can play games, listen to music from or watch videos from musicians of that country. You can also chat with other website members using the Live Chat feature.

http://www.thepacific.co.nz/

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A sinking feeling: views on climate change from Tuvalu

The floods are getting worse in Tuvalu. As scientists argue over climate change and struggle to measure rising seas, the author meets the locals of this tiny island nation, whose attitudes and responses to the impending catastrophe vary in complex and sometimes surprising ways. (Samir S. Patel, Nature, April 2006)

http://www.scidev.net/pdffiles/nature/tuvalu.pdf

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South Pacific MDG Indicator Country Summaries

(SPC) For the following Pacific Islands nations: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Republic of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Republic of Nauru, Niue, Republic of Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu, Republic of Vanuatu.

http://www.spc.int/mdgs/PIC_reports/reports.htm

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Small is viable : the global ebbs and flows of a Pacific atoll nation [PDF]

By Gerard A. Finin (2002). East-West Center Working Papers, Pacific Island Development Series, No. 15. In an era when the list of "failed states" grows stronger by the month, Tuvalu's achievements are little short of extraordinary. This report considers how Tuvalu is dealing with the positive and negative repercussions of globalisation.

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/res-rp-publicationdetails.asp?pub_ID=1267

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The Canary is Drowning: Tiny Tuvalu Fights Back Against Climate Change

By Tom Price CorpWatch December 3, 2002 Most news on global warming is datelined from places like Washington DC, London, and Tokyo, but if you want to see the frontlines in the battle against climate change, head 400 miles north from Fiji and land on the eroding beaches of Tuvalu. This tiny atoll, just one generation removed from British colonialism, faces the very real likelihood that the rising tide of global climate change will render it uninhabitable before the next generation is grown.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/micro/2002/1203canary.htm

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European Community - Tuvalu Country Strategy (pdf)

Country Strategy paper and National Indicative Programme for the period 2002-2007 (PDF).

http://dev-zone.net/downloads/5763tv_csp_en.pdf

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Tuvalu seeks help in US global warming lawsuit

SOUTH AFRICA: August 30, 2002 JOHANNESBURG - The Pacific island state of Tuvalu wants to enlist Caribbean and Indian Ocean nations in a planned lawsuit blaming the United States and Australia for global warming that could sink them beneath the waves. Finance Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu said this week that Tuvalu, a chain of nine coral atolls whose highest point is just four metres (13 feet) above sea level, expects to be ready to launch formal legal action against both within a year. "We are fighting a giant," he told Reuters during the Earth Summit in Johannesburg of a plan to take on the United States, the outline of which was unveiled in March. "It is one of the few options we have." He said he was lobbying other low-lying nations at the World Summit on Sustainable Development join it in lawsuits.

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/17514/story.htm

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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Suva Office, Fiji

UNDP Resident Representative & Resident Coordinator's Office for Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

http://www.undp.org.fj/

(Added: Mon Feb 25 2002   Modified: Fri Jul 14 2006   Hits: 560)

Tuvalu Telecom Directory

http://www.tuvaluislands.com/telecom/telecom-index.htm

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