Landowner women and mothers have protested over plans to reopen the Panguna mine on Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
They demonstrated in Arawa in central Bougainville and blockaded the route to the derelict Panguna copper mine late last week in a bid to prevent the signing of a memorandum of agreement between the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) and Bougainville Copper Limited, which has disputed ownership of the mine.
The women also succeeded in getting a court injunction against the mine agreement in the National Court in Port Moresby on Friday afternoon.
Llane Munau was there to capture the women’s protest on camera.
