Add to ORKGThis brief summarises the main legal issues debated during the three-day conference on Sorcery and Witchcraft Related Killings: Culture, Law and Human Rights Perspectives, held at the Australian National University in June 2013.1 The conference was multidisciplinary, and was well represented from the legal perspective with speakers from the law reform commissions of Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, four speakers from the Papua New Guinea office of Public Prosecutor and several legal academics.AusAI
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In this In Brief, Associate Professor Richard Eves looks at the lack of definitional clarity that ex...
Law and order issues feature prominently in public debate in Papua New Guinea. Concerns centre aroun...
It is extremely difficult to gauge the nature and extent of sorcery accusation–related violence (SA...
Sorcery and witchcraft practices and beliefs are pervasive across Melanesia. They are in part create...
The issue of sorcery and witchcraft-related accusations and violence in Papua New Guinea is receivin...
This In Brief argues that the repeal of Papua New Guinea's Sorcery Act 1971 has been functionally ir...
The July 2018 Codification and Creation of Community & Customary Laws in the South Pacific and Beyon...
Newly democratising states experience challenges in reconciling 'traditional' or 'customary' dispute...
Law pervades the social, political, and economic aspects of the lives of all people in all communiti...
There is a global trend of increasing expectations and demands on law to bring about social change. ...
Discussion Paper #80: This discussion paper reports on a number of key emerging research findings fr...
This article investigates yafuni ('witchcraft' or female sorcery) accusations among the Maisin peopl...
Most island states in the South Pacific have inherited a common law legal system as a consequence of...
The community continues to develop very dynamically related to rules or laws that must always be upd...
This paper will comment on the introduction of the law of corroboration in the South Pacific focusin...
In this In Brief, Associate Professor Richard Eves looks at the lack of definitional clarity that ex...
Law and order issues feature prominently in public debate in Papua New Guinea. Concerns centre aroun...
It is extremely difficult to gauge the nature and extent of sorcery accusation–related violence (SA...