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1000 BC |
Nauru was first inhabited about this time, originally by 12 Polynesian and Micronesian tribes. Its nearest neighbor, Kiribati, is 300km of empty ocean away. Links: Nauru 
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1971 |
Australia joined with New Zealand and 14 independent of self-governing island nations to form the South Pacific Forum. The name was changed in 2000 to Pacific Islands Forum. Member states include: Australia, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Since 2006, associate members territories are New Caledonia and French Polynesia. In 2011 Guam, the Northern Marianas and American Samoa became associate members. Links: Australia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Guam, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Marianas, Micronesia, Kiribati, Niue, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands
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1998 Nov 15 |
Nauru and Niue registered to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There remained 3 years worth of phosphate to be mined on Nauru which grappled with 3 major crises: rising water from world-wide global warming, a 3rd year of draught, and a $100 million investment fund that was put into the Asian real-estate market. Links: Environment, Nauru, Nieu
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2001 Aug 31 |
Ministers of New Zealand and Nauru announced that they would take the Afghanistan asylum seekers stranded in Australian waters. Links: Australia, New Zealand, Afghan, Nauru
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2003 Mar 9 |
Nauru's Pres. Bernard Dowiyogo (57), known as a pragmatic leader of the environmentally devastated South Pacific island, died in Washington DC. He signed an executive order as he lay dying, at the behest of US officials, ending the Nauru offshore banking system and its economic-citizenship program. Links: Nauru
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2003 Aug 14 |
The 16-member Pacific Islands Forum (Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) planned to create a region-wide aviation market aimed at encouraging tourism. Links: Australia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Kiribati, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nieu, Solomon Islands
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2008 Jan 8 |
Nauru’s foreign minister said Australia's plans to close a much-criticized detention center for asylum seekers on Nauru will devastate its economy. Links: Australia, Nauru
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2008 Feb 8 |
Australia's widely criticized "Pacific Solution" policy of holding asylum seekers on remote islands ended when the last detainees flew out of Nauru to live in Australia. Links: Australia, Nauru
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2008 May |
Pacific Island nations imposed a series of measures aimed at halting overfishing. 8 of 17 members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission agreed on the measures In December the 9 remaining members joined in imposing a conservation agenda on 20 million square miles to take effect on January 1, 2010. The 17 members included Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. Links: Australia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Fish, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Kiribati, Niue, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Solomon Islands
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2009 Dec 15 |
The tiny Pacific island of Nauru recognized the rebel Black Sea region of Abkhazia, throwing its weight behind a Russian drive to win international recognition for Georgia's breakaway territories. Links: Georgia, Abkhazia, Nauru
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2011 |
Nauru defaulted on sovereign bonds issued on the Japanese stock market. Firebird, a New York-based hedge fund that mainly specializes in investments in overseas equities, sued Nauru in a Japanese court and obtained an order against the nation for the equivalent of 16 million USD. Links: USA, Nauru
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2012 Aug 13 |
Australia's PM Gillard announced a sharp reversal in her government's policy on asylum seekers, saying it will introduce legislation allowing their deportation to the poor Pacific nations of Papua New Guinea and Nauru to face lengthy stays in detention camps. Links: Australia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Migrant
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2013 Aug 3 |
Australia’s PM Kevin Rudd and the President of Nauru, Baron Waqa, signed a memorandum of understanding providing for asylum seekers arriving by boat to be sent to Nauru where they can opt for resettlement after their claims for refugee status are processed. Links: Australia, Nauru, Migrant
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2014 Jan 8 |
Nauru, the tiny Pacific island that hosts a controversial Australian immigration detention centre, was reported to be hiking visa costs for foreign journalists by 40 times, fuelling concerns over secrecy surrounding Australia's asylum seeker policy. Links: Nauru
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2014 Jan 19 |
The Nauru government deported Peter Law, its Australian resident magistrate, and barred its Australian chief justice, Geoffrey Eames, from re-entering the country. Links: Nauru
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2014 Aug 2 |
Australia officials said some 157 asylum-seekers, thought to be mostly ethnic Tamils from Sri Lanka and detained at sea for weeks, have been sent to the island of Nauru after rejecting a return to India. Links: Australia, Sri Lanka, Nauru
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2014 Sep 26 |
Australia and Cambodia signed an agreement for asylum-seekers, who are refused residency in Australia and currently held in Nauru, to instead be resettled to Cambodia criticized for its deteriorating human rights record. Links: Australia, Cambodia, Nauru, Migrant
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2014 |
The population of Nauru was about 9,400 spread over 21 sq. km. Links: Nauru
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2015 Sep |
New Zealand suspended its aid to Nauru’s judicial sector. Links: New Zealand, Nauru
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2016 May 6 |
A Papua New Guinea court ruled that a pregnant African woman, who says she was raped at an Australia detention center for asylum seekers on the tiny South Pacific island of Nauru, cannot be forced to have an abortion in Papua New Guinea because it is unsafe and illegal. Links: Australia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Rape
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2016 Jul 9 |
The Pacific island of Nauru held elections, with international observers invited to monitor the polls for the first time in more than a decade after criticism over human rights in the world's smallest republic. 67 candidates vied for support from just under 8,000 registered voters for the 19 seats in parliament. Links: Nauru
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2016 Nov |
The Obama administration agreed to accept up to 1,250 refugees held at Nauru, who have been refused entry to Australia. Most of the refugees were from Afghanistan, Iran and Sri Lanka. Links: Australia, USA, Nauru, ObamaB
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2017 Feb 9 |
An Australian minister said US officials have stopped screening refugees on Nauru for potential resettlement in the US, but will return for “extreme vetting,” a process called for by Pres. Trump but not yet defined. Links: Australia, USA, Nauru, TrumpD
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2018 Sep 4 |
Nauru hosted the Pacific Islands Forum, which is being attended this week by leaders from 18 member nations and delegations from other countries including the US and China. Links: Nauru
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2018 Sep 8 |
It was reported that Nauru has effectively kept journalists away by charging $5,750 to apply for media visas. Links: Nauru, Journalism
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2018 Oct 27 |
In Australia protesters rallied in Sydney and Melbourne calling for an end to the country's controversial South Pacific detention centers which house refugees who try to reach Australia by boat. Particular focus was directed toward the wellbeing of children on the tiny island nation of Nauru. More than 1,400 people are being held on the Australian-run detention centers on Nauru and Papua New Guinea, some for years. Links: Australia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Migrant
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2018 Nov 1 |
Australia said it aims to remove all asylum seeker children from Nauru within two months as concerns escalate about their deteriorating health after languishing on the tiny Pacific atoll nation for up to five years. Links: Australia, Nauru, Kids, Migrant
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2019 Feb 3 |
Australia announced that the last four child refugees held on the Pacific atoll of Nauru will soon be sent to the United States, ending the banishment of children under the government's harsh asylum-seeker policy. Links: Australia, Nauru, Kids
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2019 Feb 15 |
The Pacific island nation of Nauru posted a new rule not allowing doctors to remotely recommend the medical transfer of asylum seekers to Australia. The new rule could thwart an easing of Australia's hardline immigration policy. Links: Australia, Nauru
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2019 Aug 24 |
Nauru President Baron Waqa was voted out of office in the tiny South Pacific island nation after six years in power. Links: Nauru
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