There are compelling reasons for development practitioners to see sorcery and witchcraft as a serious human rights issue, particularly when it leads to accus
This In Brief argues that the repeal of Papua New Guinea's Sorcery Act 1971 has been functionally irrelevant for village courts, which face the issue of sorc
In 2013, widespread publicity given to the deaths of two women accused of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea (PNG) drew international and national attention to t
In this In Brief, Associate Professor Richard Eves unpacks the lack of definitional clarity that currently exists around the terms sorcery and witchcraft in the Papua New Guinea context.