‘Girl Power’ wows Port Moresby with new anti-violence video ‘No More’
PNG’s “first ever” girl band makes debut appearance in Port Moresby. Video: EMTV News By Stacey Yalo in Port Moresby With hopes of empowering more women in the Papua New Guinea music industry, renowned female artist, Mereani Masani, introduced what was claimed to be “first ever” girl band to perform live in Port Moresby last […]
Read More →‘Embalming’ hampers autopsy finding in death of PNG journalist
By Staycey Yalo in Port Moresby The final autopsy report on Post-Courier journalist Rosalyn Albaniel Evara, handed to the Papua New Guinean Coroner’s Court last week, has an “undetermined death” finding. PNG journalist Rosalyn Evara (left) on assignment. Image: EMTV News Chief Pathologist Dr Seth Fose conducted the full autopsy and compiled the report, saying […]
Read More →CYF bill needs to go back to the drawing board
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: CYF bill needs to go back to the drawing board It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Government needs to go back to the drawing board on the Child Youth and Family (Oranga Tamariki) Bill. Māori have been leading the charge on raising questions on what […]
Read More →Let’s be Bold on International Women’s Day
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: Let’s be Bold on International Women’s Day Let’s make sure we properly resource sexual violence prevention work. Currently, about 1.5% of government funding for sexual violence goes to prevention. ACC has been given the lead role on education in schools. So far they’ve rolled out […]
Read More →Improve workplaces, and address domestic violence
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: Improve workplaces, and address domestic violence Last week the Productivity Commission put out a report about how to grow “weak labour productivity”. These views are being criticised as being straight out of the 1980s. What is a real problem is that we have a problem […]
Read More →Domestic Violence – some advice for the media
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: Domestic Violence – some advice for the media For the purpose of this piece, I’m going to use Domestic Violence (DV) as a proxy for intimate partner violence. DV is not isolated to physical abuse in a relationship between people with the same power. DV is […]
Read More →The Government’s Domestic Violence plan (Part One)
MIL OSI – Source: Green Party – Press Release/Statement Headline: The Government’s Domestic Violence plan (Part One) I want to acknowledge that I respect Minister of Justice Amy Adams and I think she genuinely wants to improve outcomes for victims of domestic violence with recently announced reforms. I also want to be clear though that […]
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