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- Connexions Library: Pacific Region Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Pacific region.
- Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- The Globe and Mail as corporate apologists: behind the love affair with Barrick Gold
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 In the rural highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a Canadian gold mine operates amongst the Ipili people, who were one of the last major ethnic groups to be contacted by the Australian colonial administration of New Guinea, or "white man", in 1939. Since that date, Porgera was known for its rich gold deposits and eventually became the site of one of the largest gold mines in the world. Today, Porgera is a site of controversy, as it riches are overshadowed by stories of gang rapes and killings of the Ipili people at the hands of Barrick security and police.
- The Land Grabbers
The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
- Who owns Papua New Guinea's Resources Boom?
Where tribes own the land Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Tribal people in Papua New Guinea fight to retain control of their communal lands in the face of 'development'.
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