The Papua New Guinea Human Rights Film Festival is a member of the Human Rights Film Network.
April 19, 2012
PORT MORESBY (26 March 2012) United Nations Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo called* on the Government of Papua New Guinea to reinforce legal and support mechanisms in its fight to eradicate violence against women. At the end of her first fact-finding mission to the country, Ms. Manjoo also urged the authorities to address some of the ...
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March 15, 2012
At the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin the International Human Rights Film Award has been presented to Aung San SuuKyi, portrayed in Luc Besson’s film The Lady. In a video message, Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi kindly accepted the award. The International Human Rights Film Award isan award by Amnesty International, Cinema ...
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March 8, 2012
The UN Human Rights Office Regional Representative for the Pacific, Matilda Bogner, today welcomed the Constitutional Law Reform Commission’sproposal to repeal Papua New Guinea’s Sorcery Act and called for more action to address sorcery-related attacks and killings. “The UN Human Rights Office has consistently urged the Government of Papua New Guinea to take action ...
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March 8, 2012
(Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on International Women’s Day 2012) Mary Kini, Angela Apa and Agnes Sil belong to three warring tribes in the mountains of Papua New Guinea. Tribal laws prohibited them from any interaction with one another. But after years of intertribal violence in their district, they ...
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