Legislation

• Village Courts Act
• Juvenile Courts Act
• Land Disputes Settlement Act
• Provincial Village Courts Act (example)
• HIV/AIDS Management & Prevention Act 2003

Donors Online

• AusAID
• Law and Justice Sector Program
• ACIL
• NZAID
• Dept of Justice & Attorney General
• World Vision

Training Course Guides

• Provincial Officers' Course Training Guide
• Village Courts Officials' Course Programme Guide

Operational Manuals

• Village court
  • English Manual 2nd ed.
  • Motu Language Manual
  • Tok Pisin Language Manual

Assessments / Reviews

• Post Courier review of Village Courts' Human Rights Training.
• Village Courts Concept Paper
• Justice Advisory Group Review 2004
• Assessment of Village Courts Operations
• Village Courts Policy

Maps

• Papua New Guinea
  • Political
  • Village courts distribution

   

Dr. Michael Goddard

• Paper on Women in Village Courts

This article is an abbreviated version of a seminar given for the State Society and Governance in Melanesia Project, at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, on 22 April 2004. It is forthcoming as State Society and Governance in Melanesia Discussion Paper 2004/3

Sarah Garap

• CEDAW Conference -Copy of Sarah's speech at Holiday Inn, Port Moresby 25-26 Nov 2005

• Article on developing Human Rights within the Village Courts system.

UNICEF / GoPNG / NLJSP in partnership are developing a Human Rights Based Approach to Programming through its operational plan to incorporate human rights into village courts training and service delivery.