Methods. -- Background. The situation as reported in 2005 - Papua New Guinea's legal obligations. -- A continuing practice of police violence. Beatings, shootings, and excessive force - Children in conflict with the law - Sex workers - Street vendors - Sexual violence - Sexual abuse by guards at Buimo Prison in January 2006 -- Targeting crime victims. -- Illegal conditions of detention. Detention of children with adults - Failure to provide children with medical care. -- Consequences of police abuse for the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Harassment for possessing condoms. -- Ongoing impunity for police violence. Response of high-level government officials to evidence of police abuse - Police failure to discipline and prosecute - Police shootings of schoolboys in Enga Province - Police beatings and gang rape of women and girls in raid on the Three-Mile Guesthouse, Port Moresby - Internal disciplinary sanctions and criminal prosecutions - New police procedures for dealing with children - Responsibility of magistrates, judges, and the Ombudsman Commission - Magistrates and judges - The Ombudsman Commission. -- Australia and other international donors -- Recommendations -- Acknowledgments.

Countries in the Pacific face unique challenges of survival and progress in establishing themselves and participating fully in international society. Their geographic isolation from the rest of global society is compounded by complex layers of often competing national and indigenous identities among their populations built through wave upon wave of migration. This has created rich diversity, competing regimes and real challenges in terms of state-building, ethnic identity, social policy cohesion and development in post-colonial settings. The issues studied here would be of interest to scholars from a range of different disciplines such as Law, Politics, Sociology and Anthropology. By examining the theory and practice of minority rights law in states such as Fiji and Papua New Guinea, alongside their more familiar neighbours Australia and New Zealand, this book makes a unique contribution in a region often ignored in the literature.

Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the world’s leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere. Written in straightforward, non-technical language, Human Rights Watch World Report prioritizes events in the most affected countries during the previous year. The backbone of the report consists of a series of concise overviews of the most pressing human rights issues in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with particular focus on the role—positive or negative—played in each country by key domestic and international figures. Highly anticipated and widely publicized by the U.S. and international press every year, the World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and all citizens of the world.

"French and Australian collaborative research in the humanities and the social sciences in the South Pacific has grown and intensified significantly over the past two decades, beginning with the international symposium Changing Identities in the Pacific at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century held at the Australian Embassy in Paris in 1997 ... In April 2006, another French-government sponsored international symposium, AGORA (Ateliers Gouvernance et Recherche Appliquée) was held at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), Noumea, New Caledonia, major themes being governance and economic development, again bringing together Francophone and Anglophone scholars from France and the Pacific region. This was followed in October 2009 by two conjoint Francophone/Anglophone conferences, held at the IRD Centre in Noumea, Stability, Security and Development in Oceania, preceded by AGORA-2, an international conference on Anglophone research in the humanities and the social sciences in the Francophone Pacific, sponsored by the French Government and the Government of New Caledonia. The first of these conferences was sponsored by the French Fonds Pacifique and the State, Society and Governance Program at The Australian National University. An edited selection of presentations from this symposium constitutes the present volume."--Preface.