New Guinea

New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island and, with an area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi), the largest island in the Southern Hemisphere. Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, it is separated by the 150-kilometre (81 nmi; 93 mi) wide Torres Strait from the Australian continent. Numerous smaller islands are located to the west and east. The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the independent state of Papua New Guinea. The western half, known as Western New Guinea or West Papua, …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English

IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …

Namibia*, Nicaragua, Niger, Oman*, Panama, Papua New Guinea*, Suriname, Tanzania*, Timor Leste*, Tonga*


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 February 2024 English

In their 2024 working paper "Sexist Textbooks," Lee Crawfurd, Christelle Saintis-Miller and Rory Todd, researchers with the Center for Global Development, Washignton D.C., investigate gender bias in textbooks from 34 …

Maldives, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands Maldives, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Maldives, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Pakistan 3 3 3 7 7 9 8 10 16 10 10 8 94 Papua New Guinea 3 3 3 3 12 Rwanda 5 7 5 4 4 3 3 2 4 4 4 5 50 17 Pakistan 9 2 3 10 20 12 1 8 27 2 94 Papua New Guinea 8 4 12 Rwanda 5 8 9 5 23 50 Samoa 6 8 10 8 3


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 2023

The State of the World’s Children is an annual report published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) since the year 1980. Each edition aims to promote awareness on key …

Croatia South Africa Japan Senegal Ghana Papua New Guinea Republic of Korea –50 –40 –30 –20 –10 0 10 95% story of inequities. In Angola, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea, a child from the wealthiest group in society


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 2023 English

This report has been published by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in April 2023. This edition of the yearly publication, the first of which was released in the year 1978, …

Yemen; Pat Kupchi, Nigeria; Joseph Mondo, Papua New Guinea; Ki Nam Park, Korea Population, Health and Welfare


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 23 November 2022 English

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), New York, published this research …

populous Pacific nations of Papua New Guinea and Fiji. In Papua New Guinea, which has recorded some of the Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in Papua New Guinea Part 5: Incidents and Victims. In Brief 2021/5 orcery- accusation-related-violence-in-papua-new-guinea 24 UNODC 2019, page 32. 25 Violence against


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 October 2022 English

This report was released on October 17, 2022, by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), a research centre at the University of …

(20,000); in East Asia and the Pacific, Papua New Guinea (27,000) and Myanmar (24,000) do. No poor person Malawi, Mali, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Niger, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Tonga, Uganda and


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 October 2022 English

This report was published jointly by Concern Worldwide, Ireland, and Welthungerhilfe, Germany, – two non-governmental organisations – in October 2022. The first annual Global Hunger Index (GHI) was published in …

25.9 99 Pakistan 36.8 32.1 29.6 26.1 100 Papua New Guinea 33.6 29.9 29.0 26.5 101 Comoros 39.5 31.7 29 Verde Mauritius Solomon Islands Lao PDR Papua New Guinea Dem. Rep. of the Congo Central African Republic Lesotho Chad Rwanda 39.8 Madagascar 39.6 Papua New Guinea a 2019 peace agreement was never fully implemented Djibouti Rwanda Kuwait Equatorial Guinea Papua New Guinea Guinea-Bissau Qatar Eswatini Jamaica Lebanon Djibouti Rwanda Kuwait Equatorial Guinea Papua New Guinea Guinea-Bissau Qatar Eswatini Jamaica Lebanon


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 13 July 2022 English

This report was published by the World Economic Forum, Switzerland, on July 13, 2022. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006; this 2022 edition is the 16th …

Bahamas, Cuba, Croatia, Iraq, Mauritania, Papua New Guinea, Russian Federation, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 14 June 2022 English

The Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) developed by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) is an index that measures particulate air pollution by a very significant …

standard specified Panama 7.8 * 0.3 * Papua New Guinea 10.8 * 0.6 * Paraguay 16.3 15 1.1 0.1 Peru 23


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 10 March 2022 English

The World Health Organization website defines ‘excess mortality’ as the difference between the number of deaths reported during a crisis and those recorded in normal conditions. Published on the website …

mortality rate (Continued from previous page) Papua New Guinea 590 3·1 15 600 (10 400 to 22 200) 82·0 (54·9


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