
Introduction The United States State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (“country reports”) strive to provide a factual and objective record on the status of human rights worldwide. The 2021 country reports were published on 12 April 2022. These are available for fifteen Pacific countries. Section 4 of the country reports provides an assessment…

Transparency International released their Corruption Perceptions Index 2017 on 22 February 2018. Whilst historical trends in CPI index scores for 2012-2017 for each country are also presented, the 2012-2017 historical scores have not been separately presented on a regional basis to allow a quick comparison of country corruption scores within each of the six regions used in the…

Read UNDP’s Human Development Report 2015 The report discusses how work can assist improvements in human development. The contents will interest a wide range of stakeholder groups. The report can be accessed here: Human Development Report 2015.