Australia’s refugee ‘islands of despair’ Australia's continued detention of about 1,000 refugees and asylum-seekers on two remote Pacific islands has garnered international criticism as...
Island nations confront climate change About halfway between Hawaii and Australia is the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati. In tourism photos, the place looks like a tropical paradise. But...
In Solomons, photographer captures disappearing islands "If the community has to leave the island…they are going to lose their culture.” Few places on earth are as vulnerable to climate change as...
Papua New Guinea struggles after quake [program] Two months after a major earthquake devastated parts of Papua New Guinea's highlands, one of the world's most remote and diverse nations is still...
Photographer spotlights Papua New Guinea’s tribal dress With tribal traditions under threat, an effort to preserve culture through photography Photographer and cinematographer Wylda Bayrón, with a boy...
The future of indigenous media [video] Just 12 languages are spoken by two-thirds of the world's seven billion inhabitants. For the globe's 370 million indigenous people, keeping their...
Aboriginal Australia in flux in ‘Another Country’ Australia's aboriginal people have struggled to preserve their own culture and identity while adapting to the changes wrought by the modern...
Project Exile: Criticizing Sri Lanka war leads to exile When columnist and human rights activist Sunanda Deshapriya criticized the Sri Lankan government’s war against Tamil rebels, he didn’t know he...
East Timor leader files suit over contract reporting The prime minister of East Timor has filed a criminal defamation suit against a newspaper reporter who wrote an article about potential bid-rigging...
In Australia, Aborigines win coastal lands after two decade fight Victory is another success for indigenous land claims for an impoverished minority. For Australia’s Aborigines, it was a notable win in a long...
