Tag: Autonomous Bougainville Government
Panguna human rights report fuels Bougainville demands for Rio Tinto-funded mine...
By Stefan Armbruster in Brisbane
The first large-scale environmental impact assessment of Rio Tinto’s abandoned Panguna mine in Papua New Guinea has found local communities...
Lawsuit promises justice for Rio Tinto’s mining disaster in Bougainville –...
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: By Aubrey Belford of the OCCRP
High in the forested mountains of Papua New Guinea's Bougainville Island lies an abandoned, kilometer-wide crater cut...
Thousands of Bougainville residents support lawsuit against mining giant
RNZ Pacific
About 4500 Bougainvillean residents now back a lawsuit against mining giant Rio Tinto.
This is an additional 1500 people from the autonomous Papua New...
Bougainville ‘other avenues’ report ‘sensationalised’, claims Makiba
PNG Post-Courier
Bougainville Affairs Minister Manasseh Makiba has described the Post-Courier’s front page story yesterday regarding a meeting between Bougainville and national government leaders as...
Stop treating Bougainville lightly, Sir Puka warns Marape
PNG Post-Courier
Opposition spokesperson for Bougainville affairs Sir Puka Temu has warned the Papua New Guinea government not to take the Bougainville ratification process lightly...
Bougainville minister angry over change in vote on independence
RNZ Pacific
A cabinet minister in Bougainville is furious that the Papua New Guinea government has decided to make a vote on independence an absolute...