A recap of the year with a listing of our favourite and most popular blogs, plus links to event presentations and podcasts.

The Taliban’s denial of access to digital spaces violates human rights, especially women’s, say Benbow, Gunawansa and Zhu-Maguire.

I am a woman in business in Papua New Guinea. This is my 11th year managing a small business. The business focuses on sharing our people’s journeys and cultures through prints on fabric and women’s ...

“Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?” asked Graham Greene in Our Man in Havana, a theme in the novel being the onerous burdens governments and ...

Now that Australia has been granted the presidency of the negotiations for the COP31 global climate summit to be hosted by Türkiye in 2026, the Albanese government has said it will focus on the ...

Survey results show PNG males under-recognise the importance of female political representation, consent and non-violence, say Kapil and Howes.

When economists want to analyse economic performance, they typically examine Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. But a better measure of economic performance is Gross National Disposable Income (GNDI ...

As the dust settles on the United Nations COP30 climate talks in Brazil, a lot of questions remain. Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, are the UN talks still fit for purpose? How can countries ...

This article is co-authored by Grant Walton, Henrietta McNeill-Stowers, Teddy Winn, Lisa Denney, Michael Kabuni and Filimoni Rokonadravu. At the 2025 Pacific Update, hosted at the University of the ...