This guide is intended to supplement other resources that provide broader overviews of human rights due diligence. It will be particularly helpful for downstream businesses or investors as they navigate how to identify, address, and track the impacts of their value chains on indigenous peoples. The guide will also be useful for policymakers as they design due diligence legislation.
This is our Final Report. It differs markedly from our Interim Report in structure and content layout as a direct result of the manner in which the government received our Interim Report. This change of strategy on our part, amongst other imperatives, is a full acknowledgement that the government is entitled to demand of us a Final Report of a kind that suits its purposes. However we do have a duty to report the truth as we discovered the truth through our investigations, in the context of our own experiences as well as offer best options on the way forward.
Land Registration (Amendment) Act 2009.
Land Disputes Settlement Act 1975
Anecdotal evidence suggests that conflicts over land and extractive resource developments are on the rise across Papua New Guinea. These micro-level conflicts have the potential to scaleup and feed into large-scale armed conflicts—such as those that occurred on Bougainville and in neighbouring Solomon Islands—which require costly external intervention. Against this backdrop, this paper examines PNG’s legally-mandated land mediation system in theory and practice. A number of weaknesses are identified and described; and a case study of an apparently successful “hybrid” approach is discussed.
Chapter 191. Land Registration Act 1981.
Land Groups Incorporation Act 1974
INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. CONSTITUTION of THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. PREAMBLE Adoption of Constitution. WE, THE PEOPLE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA— · united in one nation · pay homage to the memory of our ancestors—the source of our strength and origin of our combined heritage · acknowledge the worthy customs and traditional wisdoms of our people—which have come down to us from generation to generation · pledge ourselves to guard and pass on to those who come after us our noble traditions and the Christian principles that are ours now.
Being an Act relating to land, to consolidate and amend legislation relating to land, and to repeal various statutes, and for related purposes.
Guided by the directives and goals of the National Constitution, the Papua New Guinea Development Strategic Plan (PNGDSP) elaborates how PNG can become a prosperous, middle income country by 2030. The directives and goals of the Constitution form the broad objectives of Papua New Guinea‟s Development Strategic Plan in the following ways.
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