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Tag - Law and justice

Poster from Voices Against Violence launch, Fiji, 2015 (Ellie van Baaren-UN Women Asia and the Pacific-Flickr)

Are family protection orders helping to prevent domestic and family violence in the Pacific region?

by Judy Putt and Lindy Kanan
21 March 2023
Migrant worker in northern Thailand working on flower farm

Beyond a criminal justice response to human trafficking in Southeast Asia

by Lisa Denney
20 February 2023
Women in Lahore, Pakistan (Marcel Crozet-ILO-Flickr)

Women-only customary courts in Pakistan and Afghanistan: inspiration for Melanesia?

by Miranda Forsyth
9 November 2022
Man cooking food in Port Moresby, PNG (Paul Maina)

Latest Port Moresby ban doomed to failure

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo
25 October 2022
High Court of Solomon Islands in Honiara (Jenny Scott-Flickr)

When judging meets development: foreign judges on Pacific courts

by Anna Dziedzic
4 April 2022

DP98 Whose right? Forceful evictions of informal settlements from state land in Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District

by Nayahamui Michelle Rooney
Nov, 2021
Richard Daschbach at the Oecusse Court

Timor-Leste vs Richard Daschbach

by Bárbara Nazareth Oliveira, Maria Rosa Xavier and Maria Agnes Bere
9 June 2021
Police at the University of Papua New Guinea during the June 2016 protests

Political interference with the PNG police

by Terence Kaidadaya and Okole Midelit
7 May 2021
New Zealand lost at sea on human rights

New Zealand lost at sea on human rights

by Darren Brunk
15 March 2021
Finding value in ‘diabolically difficult’ justice reviews

Finding value in ‘diabolically difficult’ justice reviews

by Lisa Denney
23 October 2020
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