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2017 PIF Opening Ceremony (US Embassy/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

14 September 2017

A wrap up of the 48th Pacific Island Forum Leaders meeting

by Tess Newton Cain and Matthew Dornan

10 April 2017

Outsourced labour: international surrogacy and women’s rights

by Ashlee Betteridge

Refugee Rights Protest at Broadmeadows, Melbourne, 9 July 2011 (Flickr/Takver CC BY-SA 2.0)

5 September 2016

by Tara Davda

UN flag at half-mast (Flickr/UN Photo/Mark Garten CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

29 August 2016

What happened to the UN I used to know?

by Camilla Burkot

26 August 2016

Fortnightly links: ending war, food rations, rebooting aid and trade, corporate concessions, and more

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood

29 July 2016

Fortnightly links: worms (again!), bombs, South Sudan, human rights, and more

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood

1 June 2016

‘Outlawed and abused’: human rights abuses against sex workers in PNG

by Camilla Burkot

Opening of 57th Commission on the Status of Women, 2013 (Flickr/UN Women)

14 March 2016

Will gender equality promises be kept? Accountability and the 2030 Agenda

by Somali Cerise

15 November 2015

Nauru and the UPR: who said what and does it matter?

by Tess Newton Cain and Savitri Taylor

Tewodros Melesse (image: IPPF)

15 September 2015

Universal rights and quality of life: an interview with Tewodros Melesse

by Camilla Burkot and Tewodros Melesse

10 December 2014

Human Rights Day isn’t what it used to be

by Robin Davies

10 February 2014

Australian aid and Cambodia’s troubled rail project

by Ashlee Betteridge

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