Three law students complete internship with Transparency International

THREE students from the University of Papua New Guinea’s (UPNG) Law School recently completed the 2021-2022 Transparency International PNG (TIPNG) legal internship programme.
Facilitated under an official five-year memorandum of understanding between TIPNG and the UPNG law school, fourth-year law students Andrea Maru, Jasmine Murray and Lloyd Kombe completed their internship with TIPNG on Tuesday.
The programme had been designed and facilitated as part of the TIPNG anti-corruption help desk (AnCoHD) programme, which offered free information and assistance to victims and witnesses of corruption in PNG.
Over their 13-week internship, the three interns had the opportunity to interview victims and witnesses of corruption, collect corruption complaints, updating the TIPNG salesforce database, and preparing case files for review and referral.
In addition to assisting the functions of the programme, they supported other TIPNG programmes through the analysis and preparation of legal briefs and the updating of the TIPNG 50+one cases index of unresolved governance issues in the country.
“We are grateful and proud of our ongoing partnership with the University of Papua New Guinea, which has facilitated this programme over the past five years,” TIPNG chief executive officer Arianne Kassman said.