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Exchange of maritime boundaries data to boost fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance in region

This milestone also represents the achievement of a key outcome under the Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP) programme to reduce Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing through enhanced Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (MCS) of oceanic and coastal fisheries. It comes at an opportune time with the global focus of World Oceans Day on 8 June being “Innovation for a sustainable ocean. Together we can protect our home.”

Facebook updates policies to prohibit surveillance

An update to its policies on both Facebook and Instagram prohibits developers from using "data obtained from us to provide tools that are used for surveillance."

Authorities step up surveillance of Zika virus

It's small, shanty towns in Port Vila that cause the most concern for those fighting the spread of mosquito-borne illness.

Frederick Yakeula from Vanuatu's public heath team has been inspecting a labyrinth of corrugated iron buildings.

Breeding in stagnant water containers throughout the settlement is the Aedes larvae, which will eventually turn into the same type of mosquito that spreads the Zika virus.

“It's a very big risk for the community, this one,” says Yakeula.