Customary Land
Customary land supports ecologically sustainable livelihoods, social inclusion and self reliance. But large corporations want to dismantle community control and take the profits...
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Model of Development
Successive government have used neo-liberal economics and unrestrained capitalism as their development model. This has had devastating impacts for most people while a small elite has become very wealthy...
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Stop the Stealing
Papua New Guinea suffers from rampant corruption. Huge amounts of public money are stolen every year from budgets that area supposed to spent on health care, education and vital infrastructure...
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Forest Crime
The forest industry in PNG is plagued with corruption, political interference, and widespread illegal practices across the sector but the govt shows little willingness to tackle the issues.
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No to Seabed Mining
Experimental seabed mining involves open-cut strip mining of the sea floor using giant remote controlled robots. Countries across the Pacific region have issued hundreds of seabed exploration licences to mining companies and in PNG the government has issued the world's first experimental seabed mining lease to Canadian company, Nautilus Minerals. Pacific countries have no specific laws that govern mining of the seabed - but
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SABL
Rural communities are still seeking justice over the huge SABL land grab. Over 50,000 square kilometres of land was taken and thousands of hectares of forest destroyed by logging...
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