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The local West Papua action group in Dunedin has met Taieri MP Ingrid Leary and raised human rights and militarisation issues that members believe the New Zealand government should be pursuing with Indonesia.
Leary has a strong track record on Pacific human rights issues having worked in Fiji as a television journalist and educator and as a NZ regional director of the British Council with a mandate for Pacific cultural projects.
She is also sits on the parliamentary select committees for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, and Finance and Expenditure.
Leary met local coordinator Barbara Frame, retired Methodist pastor Ken Russell, and two doctoral candidates on West Papua research projects at Otago University’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPCS), Ashley McMillan and Jeremy Simons, at her South Dunedin electorate office on Friday.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, said. Of Kiwi adolescents aged 17 and over, 40.5 per cent have had sex – but only 52 per cent of sexually active adolescents use contraception consistently, the research said.
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Dr Rebecca Duncan said the current system is not working. Duncan said while there are a range of contraceptives available in New Zealand, the current provision of contraception to adolescents is reactive rather than proactive. She said it is also not focused on long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), and therefore “may not be as effective as it could be”.
Uptake of LARCs, such as implants and intrauterine devices, is low for all ages – despite being “22 times as effective” as oral contraceptive pills, the research said.
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New Delhi: Impact assessments have a patchy history of effectively engaging Indigenous communities and providing positive outcomes for their aspirations – University of Otago research is providing a starting point to improve the situation.
Used to identify future environmental, social, cultural and other consequences of a current or proposed action, impact assessments provide support to decision-makers on what might happen if a proposed policy or project is implemented. Indigenous impact assessment is an emerging field in this area and has an underdeveloped theoretical foundation.
Lead author Dyanna Jolly, Otago PhD candidate in the School of Geography, says Indigenous communities face a conundrum when preparing impact assessments. “The impact assessment context for Indigenous groups cannot be dissected into environmental, social or cultural. Rather, Indigenous worlds and approaches comprise seamless interconnections of a multitude of domains. These communities f