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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

Police at the University of Papua New Guinea during the June 2016 protests

7 May 2021

Political interference with the PNG police

by Terence Kaidadaya and Okole Midelit

New Zealand lost at sea on human rights

15 March 2021

New Zealand lost at sea on human rights

by Darren Brunk

Finding value in ‘diabolically difficult’ justice reviews

23 October 2020

Finding value in ‘diabolically difficult’ justice reviews

by Lisa Denney

A mid-term review can be a challenge even for experienced writers. (Icons8)

3 September 2020

The diabolically difficult mid-term review

by Gordon Peake

death penalty PNG

23 June 2020

Should PNG use the death penalty on cop killers?

by Moses Sakai

18 May 2020

The SDGs, access to civil justice, and legal technology

by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

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