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Papua New Guinea: Media restrictions and cybercrime law undermine freedom of expression
Published at
28.08.2024
Country
Papua New Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- protest
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights

Papua New Guinea: Cybercrime law used to criminalise expression while concerns remain around proposed media law
Published at
12.03.2024
Country
Papua New Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- harassment
- excessive force
- protest
- criminal defamation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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