PNG Ways: hybrid livelihoods and human development
Submitted by ACTNOW on Sat, 02/04/2016 - 04:01
Summary of paper given at the 2015 Waigani Seminar, by Tim Anderson
Model of Development
Land grabbing, illegal logging and seabed mining raised in Geneva
Submitted by ACTNOW on Thu, 31/03/2016 - 03:25
The government’s human rights record and its failure to protect the interests of customary landowners is under the spotlight in Switzerland this week.
Community advocacy group ACT NOW! is in Geneva briefing diplomats at the United Nations on the SABL land grab, illegal logging and experimental seabed mining.
SABL land grab, illegal logging and seabed mining on the agenda in Geneva
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 30/03/2016 - 04:03The government’s human rights record and its failure to protect the interests of customary landowners is under the spotlight in Switzerland this week.
Community advocacy group ACT NOW! is in Geneva briefing diplomats at the United Nations on the SABL land grab, illegal logging and experimental seabed mining.
“The PNG government must appear before the United Nations Human Rights Council in May as part of a process called a Universal Periodic Review (UPR)” explains Eddie Tanago, Campaign Coordinator with ACT NOW!
Vanuatu: Another Kind of Wealth
Submitted by ACTNOW on Fri, 25/03/2016 - 15:30
Source: The Christensen Fund
In the language of modern economics, the small island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific is labeled one of the world’s ‘least developed countries’. At the same time, Vanuatu has ranked number one on the pioneering Happy Planet Index. This incongruity points to major issues with today’s standard measures of human progress, and has many policymakers rethinking notions of wealth and how they shape development policy.
Where is the justice? how our courts aid grand corruption
Submitted by ACTNOW on Thu, 24/03/2016 - 13:21
Papua New Guinea Correctional Service, Bomana Prison
Source: PNG Exposed Blogs
Here we go again. It appears there is a two-tier justice system, one for the poor and one for the rich.
Earlier this month the National Court sentenced a Bank of South Pacific employee David Poholi to five years imprisonment with hard labour, for misappropriating K688,000 from his employer, BSP.
Government must seriously address illegal logging
Submitted by ACTNOW on Mon, 21/03/2016 - 08:47
Source: Cosmas Makamet, PNG Eco-Forestry Forum
Losing Papua New Guinea's rainforest
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 09/03/2016 - 11:57Source: ABC News
An area of Papua New Guinea's internationally significant rainforests in excess of the size of Australia's entire Wet Tropics Heritage Area in north Queensland has been cleared or logged in the 10 years to 2014, a new report has found.
Forest Minister incorrect over The Great Timber Heist
Submitted by ACTNOW on Wed, 09/03/2016 - 09:12
Forest Minister Douglas Torumiesa’s attack on a report alleging the logging industry is failing to pay hundreds of millions of Kina in taxes is full of errors.
“The Forest Minister’s statements attacking The Great Timber Heist are full of inaccuracies and must be challenged”, says ACT NOW! Program Manager, Effrey Dademo.
Putting a halt to the great timber heist in Papua New Guinea
Submitted by ACTNOW on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 15:29Source: The interpreter
Demand Basic Services from the Government not the Company!
Submitted by ACTNOW on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 15:03
Providing rural roads is a government responsibility
As Papua New Guinea (PNG) approaches the next National Election (2017) it is important for everyone to be reminded that it is the responsibility of the government to provide all the basic services we need. It is not the role of private companies to be providing classrooms, health clinics and roads.