Library
In April 2023, the Ministry of Justice and Community Services (MJCS) convened a Senior Leadership Group (SLG) meeting to reflect on this very issue. Agency heads collectively agreed that improved coordination of service delivery during crisis was necessary. An...
If you have separated or divorced from the father of your child, you are entitled to child maintenance. In Vanuatu, the legal process will be affected by your marital status. The biggest difference is that if you were married to the father of your children, the legal...
Read Vanuatu's Cyber Crime Act here.
Child maintenance is the most important part when it comes to separations between a couple. It is here that the financial stability of the child is crucial, especially when the couple is not married. Maintenance of a child is the money that the child’s father has to...
Child custody is when two partners separate and the concern of their child’s welfare is to be decided by the law of custody on who or which parent gets the custody of the child. Custody is the right of a parent by the law to have their child’s full custody and which...
To view the full report click here. Station/Post: Vila Date: Place/Lieu: Vila Police Station Time/Heure: hrs Name/Nom: ...
This week we will look at child custody and maintenance under the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1986 [CAP. 192] and the Guardianship of Minors Act 1971 Custody refers to the day to day care and control of minor children (0-18 years) or older than 18 years if the child is...
To read the full report click here. Executive Summary In 2009, the Vanuatu Women’s Centre (VWC) in partnership with the Vanuatu National Statistics Office (VNSO) completed the first Vanuatu National Survey on Women’s Lives and Family Relationships. This survey...
To read the full report click here. Research Overview This research is the result of several years of engagement by the Policing and Justice Support Program (Vanuatu), in partnership with the Vanuatu Ministry of Justice and Community Services, with funding...
To read the full report click here. Executive Summary We identified and analysed 908 sentencing records involving SGBV in seven PICs: Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, PNG, Kiribati and Vanuatu. We analysed each case to determine whether gender stereotypes,...
Vanuatu: Maternity Protection - 2011 Breastfeeding Right to nursing breaks An employer shall allow a woman employee who is nursing a child 1 hour twice a day during her working hours for this purpose, until the child reaches the age of 24 months. Employment Act (as...
To read the full report click here. About the Conference Most of the chapters in this book were presented as papers at a three-day conference in Port Vila, Vanuatu, in June 2000. Organised jointly by the Australian National University’s State, Society and Governance...
To read the full report click here. Miranda Forsyth researched and wrote this book while teaching at the University of the South Pacific Law School in Vanuatu for the past six years. During this time, she acquired depth and breadth of knowledge of law and kastom in...
The family protection Act is a brochure produced by the Vanuatu women’s center. Within this brochure contains information’s on law’s regarding family protections, and general information’s on what this law can do and its importance, Such as why you need to protect a...
To read the full report click here. This article considers the relationship between customary law (kastom) and the official legal system in Vanuatu. It looks at the limitations of the reasons propounded for the lack of integration of customary law and the official...