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Australians Green washing the mining industry in PNG

On 02 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Gender and Mining Symposium in Papua New Guinea

Source: PNG Mine Watch

IM4DC, in collaboration with The University of Queensland (UQ) and The University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) recently presented a gender and mining symposium and workshop in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Research says informal economy neglected

On 10 Apr, 2014 By rait man

From The National

Educate women for a better nation, says young Papua New Guinean leader

On 20 Dec, 2013 By Tim

Source: Radio Australia

To young Papua New Guinean activist Tamara Kruzang Mandengat, education and self reliance are the keys to a better future.

Tamara Kruzang Mandengat

Tamara Kruzang Mandengat says that more focus must be put on educating young women in Papua New Guinea (Credit: ABC)

Mining benefits fail to trickle down

On 23 Jun, 2013 By rait man

Neena Bhandari | IPS

With South-South trade on the rise and growth in emerging economies set to outstrip production in industrialised countries, the international mining sector has been quick to follow global trends.

In recent years, significant mining activity has moved from the developed to the developing world, with the latter’s share of global trade in minerals increasing from less than one-third in 2000 to nearly half in 2010.

Informal economy ensures equitable development in Papua New Guinea

On 25 Jan, 2012 By rait man

By Catherine Wilson

Although Papua New Guinea is known as a resource-rich country, 85 percent of the population depends on the informal economy for a living.

Photo: Women at Gordons market (Catherine Wilson/IPS)

The need for a grassroots-led economic enterprise to aid equitable and sustainable development is nationally recognised, but awaits better governance, infrastructure and facilities.

Listening to the impacts of the Exxon-Mobil LNG project

On 06 Jan, 2012 By rait man

From LNG Watch Papua New Guinea*

In 2011 Oxfam launched their LNG Impact Listening Project. In the words of Oxfam, the project's aim is to “understand people’s experiences and views of the impacts of the PNG LNG Project, and how they are responding to these impacts” (p.2). The listening project has focused on four villages affected by the LNG operation in Central Province; Lea lea, Papa, Boera and Porebada. A welcomed emphasis is given to the voice of women.

Untold agonies caused by Special Economic Zones in SE Asia

On 23 Mar, 2011 By rait man With 1 Comments

With the World Bank drafting the legislation for Special Economic Zones in Papua New Guinea and the government eager to use the new Act to declare the Pacific Marine Industrial Park in Madang as PNG's first SEZ, it is timely to review a report on the Untold Agonies that SEZs have created in SE Asia and critically examine some of the benefits they supposedly bring

This Parliament - and the next?

On 20 Mar, 2011 By rait man

By James Macpherson, Eric Kwa and Ray Anere*

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Political climate change can create a political cyclone. Controversies over parliament’s election of the Governor-General, votes of no-confidence, environmental legislation, integrity of political parties, and infrequent meetings of parliament are political climate changes. Parliament risks unconstitutionality and irrelevance. This could be the cyclone.

The unseen factor: Egypt's women protestors

On 14 Feb, 2011 By tok stret With 5 Comments

By Esther Saoub (gb/dpa/AFP)

Tens of thousands of the protesters demanding political reforms in Cairo as part of the popular uprising are women.

A lot of the news footage from Egypt's Tahrir Square in central Cairo showed men standing and shouting in the front rows of demonstrators, but the impression is misleading.

Five women die everyday during childbirth

On 18 Jul, 2010 By tok stret With 2 Comments

By MAUREEN GERAWA

THE number of women dying during childbirth in Papua New Guinea has doubled since 1996, but the issue has not been declared an emergency because it is not a disease, a meeting was told yesterday.

A roundtable meeting on safe motherhood held at the Parliament Function room has also heard that five women in Papua New Guinea die during childbirth everyday.

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