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• 6. Fighting from the frontlines of the Pacific’s climate crisis

  Pacific Island countries are suffering the devastating effects of climate change. But as CIVICUS Youth Action Team’sBetty Barkha stresses, they are amazingly resilient. 

  “The sea is coming closer to home, we don’t have to walk to the lagoon anymore.” The haunting words of a four-year-old playing with his friends near Bonriki village, on the main island of Tarawa in Kiribati, still gives me chills. Little did he know that the ocean that gives him and his friends so much happiness was out to claim their home.

• Pacific Island leaders are tightening the screws on press freedom, dissent

  By Josef Benedict, CIVICUS  civic space research officer. 

  It’s not only climate change and rising sea levels that threaten the lives and well-being of Pacific Islanders. Rising levels of official intolerance of dissent and free speech across the region poses a threat to the well-being of their democracies.
  Read on: Asian Correspondent

• Putting the Pacific on the Map

  By Danny Sriskandarajah

  This year, CIVICUS International Civil Society Week will take place in Fiji, and will allow civil society delegates from around the world to explore the frontlines in the global fight against climate change. 

  Read on:Open Democracy