Johanna Gusman is the Regional Adviser for Human Rights and Social Development at the Pacific Community (SPC) based in Suva, Fiji. The views expressed in this article represent her own and not that of the organisation’s. Johanna is an international human rights lawyer with an interdisciplinary background in biophysics and physiology. She has served as a Visiting Research Scholar at Australian National University, Georgetown University Law Centre, and Oxford University, where she examined novel ways to facilitate access to justice where there is a perceived power imbalance in civil liability systems, among other human rights-related topics. She served as a Fulbright Public Policy Fellow in Samoa and has been working on ICJ submission coordination in partnership with Pacific governments.