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A review of medium-sized businesses in PNG showed that the majority are owned or part-owned by current or former politicians. [8] PNG has enormous resource potential through its natural endowments in mineral deposits, petroleum, forestry, fishing, and tourism.
Accessibility to affordable and appropriate health care is an issue faced by women in PNG, particularly for women located in the outer islands. [8] This is linked to the high rate of maternal mortality. PNG has the second-highest rate of maternal death in the Asia Pacific region. [9]
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a population of 6.8 million, nearly half of which is under 18 years of age. [1] Public trust in the justice system has been eroded, and the country’s significant crime problem exacerbated, by brutal responses from police against those they suspect of having committed offences, and the routine violence, abuse and rape carried out by police against persons, including ...
Following PNG's ongoing affairs surrounding corruption, the National Anti-Corruption Authority (NACA) was established in April 2004, in an attempt to reduce negative implications. NACA works alongside nine other public sector organisations, including the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) with the common goal of reducing corruption ...
When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Papua New Guinea achieves 90.8% of what is expected based on its current income. [7] In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves only 81.6% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income. [ 7 ]
Satellite images exemplify massive loss of forest cover in New Ireland between 1989 (bottom) and 2000 (top). Deforestation in Papua New Guinea has been extensive and in recent decades from 2001 to 2020, Papua New Guinea (PNG) lost 1.57Mha of tree cover, equivalent to a 3.7% decrease in tree cover since 2000, and 1.15Gt of CO₂e emissions.
In the midst of all of these structural problems with Social Security, there's also a major political one. While congressional leaders love to talk about the need to "fix" Social Security, little ...
Esther Heidbüchel, The West Papua conflict in Indonesia: actors, issues and approaches, 2007, ISBN 3-937983-10-4, ISBN 978-3-937983-10-3; J. Budi Hernawan, Papua land of peace: addressing conflict building peace in West Papua, 2005; King, Blair (2006). Peace in Papua: widening a window of opportunity. Council on Foreign Relations.