March 21, 2023 BY Edwina Williams Peaceful place: Anne Tudor regularly walks the Dementia Friendly Forest and Sensory Trail with her service dog, ANNE Tudor was still a teenager when her 24-year-old brother was killed in a car accident.Life already “felt serious,” and subsequently her caring, social justice-centred attitude emerged.Moving from Gordon to Rabaul in […]
It depends on every one of us: Do we want to follow the ideally conceptualized system, or the real and living system of life and living? If you asked me this question, then my answer is, “If the system does not exploit and destroy the nature and my custom values, norms and systems, then I […]
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Looking at the economy in Daru, Papua New Guinea (PNG), a few questions come up. Why is it that Chinese residents who have run a business for less than 10 years have been able to control the economy, while the local people still trade in the same way their ancestors did hundreds of years ago? […]
The Wantok Blong Yumi Bill was a bill unanimously adopted by the Parliament of Vanuatu in June 2010. It was derived from a “People’s Petition”, tabled in Parliament by Independent MP Ralph Regenvanu. The bill’s purpose was to express Vanuatu’s recognition of West Papua’s independence from Indonesia, and to commit Vanuatu to actively seek observer […]
By Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post “We are all Melanesian,” says Vanuatu Deputy Prime Minister Joe Natuman. “We are family. We regard it as an obligation to help one another.” Natuman recounted the history of West Papua from post-World War II days at the Morning Star flag-raising ceremony in Port Vila […]
Members of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) met with Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) and Younsolwara Pacific at the Secretariat during their visit in 2019. Press Release THREE members of Pacific civil society have called for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua to be allowed membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group. […]
We Melanesian affiliates of PIANGO call upon the leaders of the MSG to join us in our journey to redefine and rethink the Melanesia we want, an endeavour that requires bold and courageous leadership. We urge the MSG to convene sub regional wide discussions with civil society organisation, to look beyond trade and profit in […]
Two women from Eastern Highlands Province have been burnt with hot iron rods, and tortured today, at a 5-mile area in Port Moresby, following accusations of sorcery. The attack began this morning and continued into the afternoon at around 2pm when police were alerted and rescued one while the other escaped earlier. One woman managed […]
Sometimes we forget that when Europeans reached the shores of the continent, they already fully well knew and understood what they were going to find there. From 711CE to 1492 Europe was largely under Moorish rule. And the Moors were black Africans. When they describe the moors European always mention a pitch black face with […]
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