Indigenous People In Papua New Guinea Lose Out On Land Rights

Indigenous People In Papua New Guinea Lose Out On Land Rights Papua New Guinea’s indigenous people have lost their right to challenge developers and the state over deals involving their land and resources. Numbering some six million people, Papua New Guineans - comprising hundreds of ethnic groups - own 97 percent of the country’s land. “This raises huge human rights issues,” Tiffany Nonnggor, a lawyer and human rights advocate, told IRIN in Port Moresby. While the rest of the...

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