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Photograph of people voting in Papua New Guinea. Voters in colourful clothing queue in front of a table where three election officals in high-vis shirts sit. A policeman stands on the grass in the foreground and there are tall trees in the background.

20 January 2022

Political leadership in PNG: women parliamentarians in the 2017 election – part one

by Russel Yangin

A woman in a colourful top and dark blue skirt is looking at a poster of election candidates in an outdoor polling station in Bougainville, PNG.

20 January 2022

Political leadership in PNG: women parliamentarians in the 2017 election – part two

by Russel Yangin

Burden of childcare in Mongolia (Khaliun Boldbaatar)

11 January 2022

Holding up more than half the sky: women and childcare in Mongolia

by Khaliun Boldbaatar

Her Royal Highness Princess Latufuipeka Tuku’aho

19 November 2021

No women elected in Tonga: time to change the story

by ‘Ofakilevuka (‘Ofa) Guttenbeil-Likiliki

Conversation in Port Moresby (Marc Dozier-UN Women-Flickr)

25 October 2021

PNG’s 2022 elections: parties, policies and women candidates

by Michael Kabuni, Russel Kitau and Minetta Daniella Kakarere

Image from cover of report 'Leadership Matters'.

12 October 2021

How the Pacific business community is accelerating women’s leadership

by Sarah Boxall

Photograph of a pile of books of ballot papers in the 2017 elections in Papua New Guinea.

23 September 2021

PNG: parties need to do more to help women get elected

by Maholopa Laveil

Photograph of people at a February 2021 protest agains the military coup in Myanmar. People are wearing masks and carrying signs. One woman holds a megaphone to her masked mouth.

7 September 2021

Australia must stand with the women of Myanmar defying military rule

by Myint Myint San, Sharman Stone and Bettina Baldeschi

Street vendor during COVID-19 in Hanoi, Vietnam (ILO-Flickr)

27 August 2021

Ethnic migrants in Hanoi: hit hard by lockdowns

by Tran Chung Chau and Nicola Nixon

A women in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, checks the photos and descriptions of candidates in the 2017 elections. The notice is attached to a tree. The woman has black curly hair and wears glasses. In the background is a thatched hut, a garden, and a man in a red and grey striped t-shirt.

12 August 2021

Temporary special measures in PNG: part two – latest developments

by Orovu Sepoe

Poll booth in PNG 2012 elections (Defence-DFAT-Flickr)

10 August 2021

Temporary special measures in PNG: part one – the story up to 2019

by Orovu Sepoe

Members of PNG Women In Politics at Nahau Rooney’s haus krai (Michelle Nayahamui Rooney)

6 August 2021

Politik meri: Nahau Rooney’s haus krai

by Dorothy Tekwie and Nayahamui Michelle Rooney

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