tuvalu

oceania / Tuvalu
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 * Tuvalu** is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa and Fiji.

Recommended Listening
[|Waves of Change - The Fragile Shore of Tuvalu] - Climate change is not the only challenge currently facing the tiny island nation of Tuvalu. When it joined the United Nations in 2000, Tuvalu signed onto human rights treaties governing the treatment of women and children. Now the all-powerful church in Tuvalu is having second thoughts about this incursion of secular modernity into traditional Tuvaluan culture.

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu

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