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Police in Port Moresby (Commonwealth Secretariat-Flickr)

2 November 2023

Foreign officers are not the answer to PNG’s policing problems

by Sinclair Dinnen and Miranda Forsyth

Ambu community by-laws sign, Solomon Islands (Sinclair Dinnen)

9 October 2023

Order-making in the shadow of the law: community by-laws in Solomon Islands

by Sinclair Dinnen and Lincy Pedeverana

Port Vila vegetable market, Vanuatu (Rob Maccoll/DFAT)

5 September 2023

Crime and safety in the Pacific Islands: the use of victimisation surveys

by Judy Putt and Sinclair Dinnen

20 July 2023

Pacific voices can advance global knowledge: reflecting on the 2023 ICON·S conference

by Bal Kama

Repairing the meeting house, Yap (Joyce McClure-Flickr)

4 July 2023

Renewal of custom and tradition in Micronesia’s legal systems

by Miranda Forsyth and Robert Torres

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

21 March 2023

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

by Judy Putt and Lindy Kanan

Migrant worker in northern Thailand working on flower farm

20 February 2023

Beyond a criminal justice response to human trafficking in Southeast Asia

by Lisa Denney

Women in Lahore, Pakistan (Marcel Crozet-ILO-Flickr)

9 November 2022

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

by Miranda Forsyth

Man cooking food in Port Moresby, PNG (Paul Maina)

25 October 2022

Latest Port Moresby ban doomed to failure

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

High Court of Solomon Islands in Honiara (Jenny Scott-Flickr)

4 April 2022

When judging meets development: foreign judges on Pacific courts

by Anna Dziedzic

5 November 2021

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

by Lydia Papandrea

Richard Daschbach at the Oecusse Court

9 June 2021

Timor-Leste vs Richard Daschbach

by Bárbara Nazareth Oliveira, Maria Rosa Xavier and Maria Agnes Bere

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