Buka Island, Bougainville © Debra Percival
Civil society
Bougainville was granted autonomy following a bitter civil war in the 1990s. It is now readying for a referendum on independence.
Dame Carol Kidu © D Percival
Highlands are full of deep ravines © D Percival
Papua New Guinea’s early settlers still live remote lives in the Highlands, yet the country was centre stage during one of the fiercest campaigns of World War II. The country’s past and present are full of paradoxes.
PNG’s population is largely rural © Reporters.be
Papua New Guinea (PNG) could be described as a mini continent. It is a country of extraordinary diversity both on land and sea from its fauna and fauna to its economic potential: oil, gas, minerals, forests and fish.
Aloysius Laukai, Managing Editor, radio ‘New Dawn’ © Debra Percival
The Non-Governmental Organisation, Tulele Peisa, is trying to resettle the estimated 1,000 strong population of the Carteret islands, a horseshoe-shaped cluster of islands to the north-east of Papua New Guinea’s Autonomous Province of Bougainville. Climate-change induced sea level rises could completely submerge their landmass by 2015.
Yvette Jarvis ran for political office and was comfortably elected as a municipal councillor to the Athens city council © Courtesy of Yvette Jarvis
Glamour and a gifted activism for the cause of migrants
Rhodes, a medieval town. Suleyman mosque © Hegel Goutier
Benin, Costa Rica and Bhutan. Photos taken from the exhibition ‘Three Continents, three Countries …One Vision’ featuring the work of Javier Del Campo
Structured dialogue with civil society fosters South-South cooperation. The potential for South-South cooperation took centre stage on 31 May 2011 at a public meeting held at the European Parliament on the theme ‘Organising Inclusive Ownership – The EU's Structured Dialogue to strengthen cooperation with Non State Actors in the South’.
Thingvellir © Marie-Martine Buckens
After 20 turbulent centuries of history, Iceland - an island that came into being just 20 million years ago by virtue of a whim of nature - straddling the rift between the American and Eurasian continental plates - is expected to join the European Union within the next two years. That’s provided its population, shaken by the 2008 financial crisis, gives its approval.
An enraptured audience enjoys a MobiCINE screening in Dakar © mobiCINE
In April 2011, 70 pupils from the Elementary School of the Patte d'Oie Builders in Dakar enjoyed their first viewing of a film on the big screen: Le ballon d’or by Cheick Doukouré. This viewing was one of the first organised as part of the MobiCINE project, which is piloting an innovative system of film screenings in two major West African cities: Dakar and Bamako. In February, 7 “motorcycle units” were equipped with laptops, portable screens, loudspeakers and generators, and operators were trained to organise screenings in schools and social centres in both urban and rural areas.