Tag: Exploitation
French Polynesia moves towards ban on ‘craziness’ of seabed mining
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia has voted a draft opinion for a temporary ban on seabed mining projects.
Of the territory's Council for the Economy, Social, Environment...
Tonga stays on US watch list for not doing enough on...
By Philip Cass of Kaniva News in Auckland
Tonga has not done enough to combat people trafficking and will remain on an American watch list,...
Solomon Islands riots push nation into slippery slide of self-implosion
ANALYSIS: By Transform Aqorau
The riots in Honiara yesterday, disturbing the city’s normally quiet atmosphere, were unexpected but not surprising.
Someone made reference to a possible...
Michael Field: On saying sorry – who next? The Banabans?
COMMENT: By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
Apologies are, more or less by custom, the end of things.
Say sorry, and don’t mention it again.
As...
Papuan landowner advocate condemns diocese link to palm oil companies
By Ans K in Merauke, Papua
Mama Elisabeth Ndiwaen, one of the Papuan landowners who has been strongly critical of highlighting oil palm investment in...
How corporations make money out of ‘feel-good’ feminism
ANALYSIS: By Catherine Rottenberg
A few days ago, I received a message from my son's secondary school announcing that it would be celebrating International Women's...
Daily Digest: Tanna filmmakers respond to exploitation claims
Comment from Vanuatu Daily Digest
Knee-jerk resentment of someone else’s success, as elsewhere, is sadly a feature of Vanuatu life, so the kind of comment seen...
A damning indictment of the parlous state of affairs in the...
Dr Shailendra Singh reviews a new edition of Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face.
Above all, David Robie’s Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and...