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

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