Over the next few years, major political — and possibly constitutional — changes can be
expected in two of Australia’s closest neighbours, as New Caledonia and Bougainville
This report covers the research undertaken in the Papua New Guinea highlands as part of the much larger
project, Do No Harm: Understanding the Relationship between Women’s Economic Empowerment and
The figure of the “good man” or “real man” is a common trope in Papua New Guinean and international campaigns to address HIV and AIDS, and violence against women. This figure is imagined as a perfect role model who is compliant with the directives of prevention slogans: a wearer of condoms, a faithful partner, non-violent and in control of everything from anger to sexual appetite, to alcohol consumption.
Papua New Guinea went to the polls in June–July 2017 for its
ninth general election since independence. Despite a record
number of women standing — around five per cent of the
Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste both have new coalition governments following mid-year parliamentary elections, but the processes that produced them and the outcomes could not be more dissimilar.
This paper draws on research undertaken in 2015 among coffee smallholders in Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG), focusing specifically on some of the challenges faced by women cof
Drawing on research in the Papua New Guinea (PNG) highlands as part of the Do No Harm (DNH) project, this In Brief examines some of the challenges women face in escaping violent relationships.
This is the last In Brief in a four-part series that summarises
key findings from an analysis of reports of sorcery accusation–
related violence (SARV) in national newspaper articles and
