Congratulations Helen

Helen Samilou, famous for her bravery towards discrimination due to her status as living with HIV/AIDS has been awarded the Papua New Guinea 2008 Award for International Women of Courage. 
This remarkable woman has defied all odds and has come out publicly with her status. She not only told everyone about her status but she has [...]

World Bank launched grant competition!

 
  Tingim Yut Kompetisen 2007 Launched  
Port Moresby, November 27, 2007 – The Tingim Yut Kompetisen 2007 will be launched at the Koroboro International School today. Youth groups and community organisations are encouraged to participate and submit their innovative proposals for community projects from all around PNG.
The Tingim Yut Kopetisen held last year received a record number of [...]

Sex In Marriage

Why are there so many divorce in Papua New Guinea?? Why are husband leaving their wife or wife leaving their husband? What is the cause for so many break-down in marriage? New couple weds…..you’d say “wow, this wedding is so perfect, this couple will be together till death do em’ part”. A year or two [...]

Is death an option?

Following the newspaper article about the husband ripping the baby off the wife’s womb….here is the respond from Mr. Ju the husband. It was on today’s courier.______________________________________________________________________________
She deserves to die: Hubby
ALLEGED wife beater Robert Ju says his traumatised wife, Toy Molly, is lucky to be alive.
Ju said the 20-year-old woman survived death, as the offence she [...]

Petition Against Family Violence

Post Courier on Tuesday 2nd October reported a most bizarre story I’ve ever read. It was a case of most horrific inhumane behavior a human being (of which I am ashamed to call myself a human) could have ever done.
The story of a man beating his wife, putting his hand through her genitals and pulled [...]

World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation

A year ago, I had the opportunity to attend the launching of the World Development Report for 2007 in Singapore. This launching coincided with the IMF/World Bank annual meeting for the year 2007. The Report was focused on young people and is titled Development and the Next Generation. This particular report is interesting as it [...]

Pacific Youth Advocacy Training

Last time I wrote something about the Youth Coalition and what they are doing. Anyway, the same Youth Coalition is holding a Pacific Youth Advocacy Training at Nadi, Fiji in December 5th – 9th 2007.
So what really is the Youth Coalition??
YC is an international organization of young people between the ages of 15 & 29 [...]

A World without Aids

The 8th International Conference on Aids in Asia and the Pacific came to an end on the 23rd of August 2007. The conference hosts skills building workshops, planetary sessions and discussions on Aids in the Asia Pacific Region.
While there was 19 plenary speakers one only slot was allocated to youths to raise their issues. This [...]

Helen’s Story - “Use a Condom”

Helen’s Story is a documentary that has been aired on Emtv about an extra-ordinary woman who defies stigmatation and discrimination to “speak-out” and advocate on HIV/AIDS. This story airs tonight also on Emtv and while I have not seen the documentary, I have decided to interview Helen and do my own “Helen’s Story” for 3 [...]

Youth Coalitions

There are alot of youth organizations around the world that is taking up the challenge of airing out youth issues and fighting for their voice to be heard. Some of these youth organizations specificly target certain social issues while others are broad in nature. Some of these youth organizations are donor fundered while others [...]