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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

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:
- positive CS development
- censorship
- intimidation

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
- non state actors
- protest disruption
- women

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

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:
- land rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- women
- environmental rights

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:
- intimidation
- harassment
- refugees and migrants
- protest

Activist group continues resistance against seabed mining in PNG
- Published at
- 15.01.2020
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- extractive industries
- refugees and migrants
- environmental rights
- protest

Attacks and threats against human rights defenders persist in Papua New Guinea
- Published at
- 01.07.2019
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- LGBTI
- women
- public vilification
- harassment
- indigenous groups
- sexual assault
- protest
- extractive industries
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- land rights