The Pacific Regional Officer of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has reported on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rights recently conducted in PNG. She reports writes that the human rights situation for many in Papua New Guinea is highly precarious, however some government commitments have the potential to change things for [...] » Read More
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Human Rights work needed in PNG
Friday, December 16th, 2011Deep sea mining – opportunity and risk for the Pacific
Thursday, August 11th, 2011I have been reading a lot lately about Seabed Mining. Parts of the deep seabed are known to contain rich deposits of minerals such as copper, nickel and cobalt. Until recently, extracting these deposits at several kilometres’ depth was too complex to be economical. But over the past few years, rising commodity prices and new [...] » Read More
Remembering the Montevideo Maru
Monday, August 8th, 2011Known as the greatest maritime disaster in Australian history it is almost 70 years since the sinking of the Montevideo Maru during World War II when 20 missionaries mostly from the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia were among the 1,053 lives that were lost. On 22 June 1942, some weeks after the fall of Rabaul [...] » Read More
Carteret Islanders – some of the world’s first climate refugees
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011A documentary film released last year tells the story of the Carteret Islanders who have been called the world’s first climate refugees. This remote chain of six small Pacific islands and the 1000 or so people who live there are is fast losing ground to rising sea levels. Sun Come Up tells the story of [...] » Read More
No.13 – Lent Event as creating Peace
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011with guest blogger Mrs. Margaret Reeson MA (National Committee Member, Relief and Development) on reason no. 13 of 21 to register now for Lent Event 2011. Check out the Act Reflect Connect blog for the full series. It was a clue. A notice taped to the door of the waiting area at a small regional airport in Papua New Guinea instructed us as passengers to book through our weapons and... Read More »
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