“The entry of a new company into PNG’s mobile market in 2022 appears to have had a demonstrable impact on the mobile internet rates offered by the two existing mobile network operators,” say Dr Amanda H A Watson from Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA) and @mosessakai2 from @PNGNRI.

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🚨New #PacNet 15: 'Will Papua New Guinea sign a bilateral security deal with China?' by Moses Sakai, Research Fellow PNG National Research Institute (PNGNRI) & #PacificForum #YoungLeader .

Explore the geopolitical stakes & implications for the Indo-Pacific:

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🎉HUGE WIN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Ghana has abolished the #deathpenalty for all ordinary crimes! Parliament has passed the private member bill initiated by MP Francis Sosu. By voting for abolition Ghana has consigned the death penalty to history.

🔗Click here: deathpenaltyproject.org/press-release-…

.DeathPenaltyProject is immensely proud to have been able to contribute to the #abolition of the death penalty in Ghana. It was an honour and privilege to have worked with Francis Sosu MP and the civil society organisations who have made abolition a reality.
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“We want the UN Office on Drugs & Crime to urge States to let go of this myth that capital punishment is actually allowed under the UN drug conventions.”

Listen to Sara Kowal discuss #Singapore 's use of the #DeathPenalty for drug trafficking in new SBS podcast 👇

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Government educational loans are helping more students to study in tertiary institutions in PNG, but without effective loan repayment schemes the loans may prove unsustainable, writes Moses Sakai. buff.ly/3Y4UGyb #PNG

Today, #Singapore executed Mohammed Aziz Hussain.

He was sentenced to death in 2018 for allegedly trafficking around 50 grams of heroin.

The #DeathPenalty for drug offences is a violation of international law.

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3.3 billion people live in countries that spend more on debt interest payments than on education or health.

This is more than a systemic risk – it’s a systemic failure.

Action will not be easy. But it is essential, and urgent.

#Ghana : a bill set to abolish the #DeathPenalty has progressed through Parliament. If passed, it will replace the death penalty with life imprisonment.

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📢 Join us in Brisbane on Tuesday 13 June for the launch of the 2022 Emerging Leaders Dialogue Outcomes Report: Building the Australia-PNG Digital Ecosystem! 🌐

Featuring a discussion with Jack Growden Sarah Bornstein and Clare Akauma

Find out more here: mailchi.mp/lowyinstitute.…

West Papua -The war we ignore. West Papua lives matters. Pacific Leaders can raise Ukraine war, but if we don't address our backyard on the West Papua issue, we are not leaders. Put aside trade, economy, resources and think about the innocent lives loss e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

The good minister has said this several times since the launching of the Coral Sea Cable in 2020. The internet data price still remains unchanged.

54 people on death row, mostly for drug-related offences, “shows that the Singapore government is very committed to the death penalty being the main element of its drug policy”, says Sara Kowal, Capital Punishment Justice Project VP. Transformative Justice Collective
Read the article here: aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/16…

Oh Savannah, ating yu mas PNG Trust Fund Baby yah

Forthcoming: Report on State-Sanctioned Killing of Women by Eleos Justice and Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide to be launched this month.

Register here for the launching on 30 March 2023 at 5PM:
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We support Ambika Satkunanathan in calling on President Ranil Wickremesinghe to commute the sentences of all persons on death row and to #AbolishDeathPenalty in #SriLanka

The full statement of Director Mai Sato during the #HRC52 52nd session of the Human Rights Council: Biennial high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty, is now available at our website Monash Law Capital Punishment Justice Project CrimeInfo
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It was a happy coincidence to hear Australian Mai Sato speak out against the death penalty on behalf of @DFAT-supported Eleos Justice at the UN #HumanRightsCouncil .

I’m pictured here with Ms Sato, Ambassador Amanda Gorely, and DFAT’s Assistant Secretary Mary Ellen Miller.

#PNG should become a regional advocate for the abolition of the death penalty as I argued in my blog post.

Penny Wong: Just as we bring all aspects of Australian power to our foreign policy, we employ every strategy towards upholding human rights … Last month, we secured the highest ever level of support at the UN for a global moratorium on the #deathpenalty
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