In January 2022, a volcanic eruption ripped apart the underwater cables that connect the Pacific island of Tonga to the world. At a stroke, the country was plunged into the kind of isolation it hadn’t experienced in more than a century.

SOLOMON ISLANDS NATIVE CYNTHIA Houniuhi spearheaded a yearslong campaign that culminated in 2025 in a landmark advisory opinion from the U.N.’s International Court of Justice. Thanks to her leadership

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At St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, the bodies of hundreds of infants born to unmarried mothers were dumped in a disused sewer. Now, thanks to the heroic efforts of one woman, they will be given a proper burial.

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