“People need to know their rights”: What Solomon Islands youth want from leaders

LESS corruption. More transparency. Development that reaches rural villages, not just urban centers. These are the demands of young Solomon Islanders in a governance survey, and unless political leaders start listening,

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No permit – Vanuatu protest deferred

A PLANNED peaceful protest over the rising cost of living in Vanuatu has been rescheduled to April 21 after organisers failed to

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Talk peace, Papuans tell Indonesia

PAPUAN peace advocates have called on Indonesia to initiate dialogue or peace negotiations to end 50 years of

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Misogyny on the rise: But women fight back

The opening session of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) meeting in New York this month heard that “misogyny is on the rise.” Sima Bahous, the Executive Director of UN Women, said women and girls are

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