A line-up of international speakers will join local NGOs and policy makers this week to discuss New Zealand's track record and future in refugee resettlement at the Looking Back & Moving Forward - Refugee Health and Wellbeing Conference at AUT University (November 18-21).

Cairns, August 06, 2009 - Climate change poses an existential threat to the Pacific Island countries and may further aggravate conflicts over increasingly scarce resources, a high-level panel warned today at the Pacific Island Forum in Cairns, Australia.