Culturally-appropriate support required to help young Pacific islanders in Australia
Pacific community leaders in Sydney are calling for more culturally appropriate services, saying many of their young people feel disenfranchised and lost trying to find help in Australia. The Restore Project is a new program that aims to support at-risk youth, and the...
What does an economically empowered Pacific woman look like?
by Louisa Gibbs and Sian Rolls, Pacific Women ‘Economics assumes women and men make decisions in the same way and that they react to economic stimuli in the same way, but they don’t. ‘We need to include women’s experiences in developing policies and creating laws,’ Dr...
Regional security measures include hearing diverse women’s voices
This article is part of ASPI’s 2020 series on women, peace and security. Diverse women’s voices are often left out of discussions about security in the Pacific. This is despite this year marking two decades since the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1325 and...