For the first time in 20 years, Papua New Guinea has no women at all in its 111-seat national parliament. While a record 167 women (5 per cent of the total 3340 candidates), including the three female ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sophie Mangai, a tall, wiry 60-year-old grandmother and battle-scarred women's rights advocate, leads a protest through downtown Wewak ...

Family and s-xual violence is a crisis facing the women and children of Papua New Guinea. Recent data shows that 50% of PNG’s women have been r-ped in their own homes and 68% of women have been ...

THE brutal murder of a young woman who was burned alive after she was accused of sorcery has sparked outrage in PNG. Twenty-year-old Kepari Leniata was stripped naked, tortured with a hot iron rod, ...

As fear of the global coronavirus pandemic gripped the world in April, a 19-year-old woman arrived at the Port Moresby General Hospital looking for help. PNG has nine confirmed COVID-19 cases, but ...

A young girl, wearing a pressed school uniform and carrying a purple backpack, stops to watch as a group of boys plays a casual game of rugby. It's is a brief moment in the documentary Power Meri, but ...

I never set out to make a film. But, as many filmmakers seem to discover, the story found me. I have always been interested in the power of sport, and in 2014 I moved to Papua New Guinea to work in ...

On her first visit to Papua New Guinea as Australian foreign minister, Julie Bishop has reconfirmed the high priority the Australia-Papua New Guinea relationship has for Australian foreign policy and ...

PNG Treasurer Don Polye says the nation can't pogress without the active involvement of women at all levels of civil society. In a wide ranging statement on women's equality on Monday, Mr Poly said ...

The Papua New Guinea government is failing to protect victims of family violence, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report, titled Bashed Up: Family Violence in PNG, found that ...

PORT MORESBY, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A young Papua New Guinea woman was lashed naked to a pole and burnt to death in what authorities fear may be another sorcery killing in the jungle interior of the ...