Lilly Be’Soer Kolts is the founder of the women’s human rights NGO, Voice for Change, in Papua New Guinea. She has been a victim of tribal conflict and also a survivor of polygamous marriage. She is currently raising six children alone. She defines herself as “a women’s human rights defender” and has taken a lead in facilitating mediation in tribal conflicts and wars. In 2010, she was awarded a Pacific Human Rights Defenders Award. This year, she successfully coordinated a peace reconciliation to resettle 500 internally displaced families and is also facilitating a drug surrender programme for youth in her local district.
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Safe Cities Part 2: Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Revisiting some of the most dangerous public spaces in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea – the city’s marketplaces – this documentary takes an inside look at how the Safe Cities Global Initiative is working to curb violence against women and girls. As one of the initiative’s five pilot projects, the Port Moresby Safe Cities programme is targeting select city markets for simple, but well-designed interventions that have the potential for high impact in reducing fear, changing behaviours, and making the city's women and girls, safer.-
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