Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Charles Darwin University – Thursday, 20 December 2012 (originally published 18 Dec) A new capacity development project will assist the women of Papua New Guinea working in agriculture to develop their leadership skills and education to improve their community’s food security. The collaborative project is supported through a $500,000 grant from AusAID through the Pacific [...]
Penny Wardle – Stuff – Thursday, 14 June 2012 (originally published 11 Jun) A seminar aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of migrant women living in Marlborough was held in Blenheim yesterday. Marlborough Newcomers’ Network field co-ordinator Margaret Western said it was the first of two women’s health seminars. Food, health and budgeting were [...]
Jo Chandler – Sydney Morning Herald – Monday, 28 November 2011 (originally published 24 Nov) WOMEN danced, wept and embraced outside the Papua New Guinea Parliament yesterday as years of campaigning culminated in a watershed vote to allow 22 reserved seats for women in the almost exclusively male chamber, where just one of 109 seats [...]
Catherine Wilson – IPS – Wednesday, 19 October 2011 (originally published Oct 17) BUKA, Bougainville , Oct 17, 2011 (IPS) – Whether the world’s largest open-cut mine on this island territory of Papua New Guinea (PNG) will resume copper and gold production, after being mothballed for 22 years, will depend on how satisfied matrilineal landowners [...]
