Abstract
This 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. The conference discussion was extremely broad-ranging; however, from a legal policy perspective it is possible to identify four central insights
Original language | English |
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Publisher | State, Society and Governance in Melanesia |
Place of Publication | Canberra, Australia |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |