Tag: justice

By Len Garae in Port Vila Vanuatu gender and human rights advocate Jenny Ligo has called on the Minister of Justice to "revisit resources" made...

By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby The founding father of Papua New Guinea, Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, has maintained that at no time in...

Eleven former Vanuatu MPs and one lawyer have been found guilty of conspiracy in a bribery case in which they were originally sentenced to...

By Peter Kinjap in Port Moresby The University of Papua New Guinea has served a contempt charge against the Students Representative Council lawyer Laken Lepatu...

Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reporting from Jakarta on the international appeals to halt the Indonesian executions. Video: Al Jazeera on YouTube The Indonesian government has...

By Nadia Marai in Port Moresby Media staff have been threatened and harassed by supporters of Western Province Governor Ati Wobiro, provincial administrator Madowa Gumoi...

Three human rights groups, TAPOL, ETAN, and Watch Indonesia!, have condemned President Joko (Jokowi) Widodo's appointment of former Indonesian military commander General (Ret.) Wiranto...

OPINION: By Atty. Jose Manuel "Chel" I. Diokno President Duterte's war on crime in the Philippines has spawned a nuclear explosion of violence that is...

Papua New Guinea's government has appointed retired judge Justice Warwick Andrew as Chair of the Commission of Inquiry established to investigate recent violence at...

By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby An urgent application filed by the Students Representative Council president Kenneth Rapa against the University of Papua New Guinea...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Nid Satjipanon in Bangkok On 2 June 2016, human rights activist and lawyer Andy Hall took to the witness box in a...

By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby Opposition Leader Don Polye has called on Papua New Guinea's police hierarchy to immediately release students detained in the...

An appeal by Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner Gari Baki against a judicial review on the suspension of Thomas Eluh and the termination of...

By Vasinatta Yama and Serah Aupong in Port Moresby An urgent application by the University of Papua New Guinea's Student Representative Council (SRC) president Kenneth...

Former Chief Ombudsman and Police Commissioner Illa Geno in the EMTV News video. By Serah Aupong in Port Moresby Former Chief Ombudsman and Police Commissioner Illa...

The number of drug convicts keeps rising despite the implementation of the death penalty in Indonesia, showing that capital punishment is not that effective...

OPINION: By Peter Laska in Port Moresby What I want to write about is what many University of Papua New Guinea students seem to be...

By Thompson Marango in Port Vila Two lawyers from Australia have been taken on board the defence team representing 11 of the jailed Vanuatu politicians...

Four human rights watchdogs have appealed to Indonesia's Minister for Politics, Law and Security Affairs to take steps to ensure that last week’s national...

The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has announced the Manus Island immigration detention centre will be closed down after the country's Supreme Court...

Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal. A copy of the PNG Supreme Court judgment...

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says recent calls by former prime minister and the country's founding leader Sir Michael Somare to leave...