Links - Focus Areas

Education

• Asia South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education (ASPBAE)
  ASPBAE has grown to a network of organizations and individuals involved in formal and non-formal adult education, working with and through NGOs, community organizations, government agencies, universities, trade unions, indigenous peoples, women's organizations, the media and other institutions of civil society across the Asia-Pacific.
• East-West Center
  The East-West Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous, and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub for cooperative research, education, and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the United States.
• The Global Schoolhouse
  The Global Schoolhouse links to the Global Classroom that aims to develop and promote learning for students and professional development for teachers. The site also has useful sections to help you use the Internet.
• The University of the South Pacific (USP)
  Detailed information about all aspects of the university.

• Greenpeace Australia Pacific
  Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organisation that uses non-violent direct action to expose global environmental problems and to force solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future.
• Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation
  Designed to help increase effective conservation action in the Pacific Islands, the Inventory of Regional Conservation Activities is a living record of conservation activities of key actors in this region.
• Live and Learn Environmental Education
  Live & Learn is a non-government organisation which promotes greater understanding and action toward human and environmental sustainability through education and dialogue building.
• South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP)
  SPREP aims to promote cooperation in the South Pacific region and to provide assistance in order to protect and improve its environment and to ensure sustainable development for present and future generations.
• World Rainforest Movement
  An international network of citizens groups working to defend the world's rainforests.
• World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Pacific Office
  The WWF South Pacific Programme Office (WWF SPPO) is a non-governmental conservation organisation serving the Pacific Island countries.

• Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
  Dawn is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy.
• SPC Human Development Programme
  SPC's Human Development Programme works with Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) to promote gender equality so that Pacific women enjoy the same opportunities as men. 
• UNWOMEN
  The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
• WomenWatch
  WomenWatch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system, including the United Nations Secretariat, regional commissions, funds, programmes, specialized agencies and academic and research institutions.

Human Rights

• A Human Rights Handbook for Civil Society (1,317 kb)
• UNDP Human Development Report 2004 - Cultural liberty in today's diverse world (PDF file 3.28MB)

• Centre for World Indigenous Studies
  The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) is an independent, non-profit research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations.
• Native Web: Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the world
  Native Web has links to sites devoted to indigenous peoples around the world, including a list of and links to those in the Pacific.

• Global Knowledge Partnership
  The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is a growing partnership of public, private and not-for-profit organisations working together to help people access knowledge and harness information and communications technologies towards equitable, sustainable development.
• UNESCO Webworld (Communication, Information and Informatics)
  Empowering people through the free flow of ideas by word and image, and by access to information and knowledge

• Canada-South Pacific Ocean Development Program
  The Canada-South Pacific Ocean Development Program is Canada’s major regional commitment to the Pacific Islands, and reflects the Canadian and Pacific belief that ocean development is a key priority and focuses on the sustainable development of the Pacific region’s living marine resources.

• Pacific Islanders in Communications
  PIC is a national non-profit media organisation that aims to increase public broadcasting by and about Pacific Islanders.
• Pacific Islands News Association (PINA)
  PINA is the main professional association of the Pacific Islands news media. It links radio and TV stations, newspapers, magazines, online services, national associations of news media practitioners and journalism school in 23 Pacific Island countries and territories.
• Pacific Journalism Online
  Home page for the Journalism Programme at the University of the South Pacific.
• Pacific Media Watch
  A non-profit, non-government organisation made up of journalists, lawyers and others involved in the media. The organisation examines media issues and publishes online.

• Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies