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Papua New Guinea: Attack on media workers, flags taken down while mining company forced to talk to communities
- Published at
- 17.10.2023
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- environmental rights
- non state actors
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Papua New Guinea: Multiple protests against government actions and increasing restrictions on the press
- Published at
- 20.06.2023
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- indigenous groups
- protest
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- land rights
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Slow progress in ensuring accountability for unlawful killing of protesters in PNG while journalists face restrictions and threats
- Published at
- 30.12.2022
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- killing of protestors
- intimidation
- harassment
- excessive force
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PNG government commits to reforms at UN review but press freedom concerns remain
- Published at
- 14.07.2022
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- intimidation
- positive CS development
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Despite UN rights review, attacks on press freedom continue in PNG with suspension of journalist
- Published at
- 15.02.2022
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- women
- political interference
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Consultation on freedom of information policy in PNG, protests against mandatory vaccinations
- Published at
- 29.09.2021
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- access to info. law
- labour rights
- protest
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Lawyer assaulted following corruption report, protest disrupted and journalists attacked in PNG
- Published at
- 06.07.2021
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- torture/ill-treatment
- attack on journalist
- protest
- protest disruption
- women
- non state actors
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Landowners hold sit-in protest for compensation while 2016 protesters file lawsuit
- Published at
- 15.04.2021
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- land rights
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Advocacy groups and activists continue campaign against mining projects in PNG despite threats
- Published at
- 23.11.2020
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- extractive industries
- HRD threatened
- land rights
- environmental rights
- intimidation
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New PNG pandemic law puts rights at risk while groups protest against mine and domestic violence
- Published at
- 25.08.2020
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- restrictive law
- women
- environmental rights
- land rights
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Journalists targeted in PNG amid the COVID-19 pandemic while nurses strike over lack of protection
- Published at
- 14.05.2020
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- intimidation
- harassment
- refugees and migrants