Month: December 2016

History has lessons for the Anti-Violence-Against-Women Movement in PNG

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By PNG Echo For women in Papua New Guinea, this week has been variable. There have been both lows and highs. The good news is that the Strategic Plan to combat violence against women, which is a comprehensive document that understands the need for long-term planning, has been endorsed by the parliamentary National Executive Council (NEC) which is a huge first step in a long journey. The bad news is that it took the mutilation of a 19-year-old woman who had both her legs chopped off by a jealous husband to wake the relevant department from its reverie (it had Continue reading History has lessons for the Anti-Violence-Against-Women Movement in PNG→

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Koim: It’s crying time again – Case dismissed

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By PNG Echo Just hours ago, the National Court of Papua New Guinea handed down its decision on the Judicial Review of the disbanding of the Taskforce Sweep brought by Chairman Sam Koim. The court found for the Prime Minister, NEC, Attorney General and Independent State of Papua New Guinea, represented by Mal Varitimos, Tiffany Twivey-Nonggorr and Nicolas Tame, and against Koim on all counts except the defense objection as to the competency of the plaintiff’s proceedings. As the judgment found that the court did not have power to review the NEC’s decision to disband the agency and that the Continue reading Koim: It’s crying time again – Case dismissed→

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