Linda Tule

She is the President of the PNG Human Rights Defenders’ Association.

For her toil in bringing disputing parties together at a Village Court hearing and defending the helpless from oppressors in communities around NCD, Linda Tule has been awarded The Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship.

It was a pleasant surprise for Linda Rau Tule when she received an email that said, she would receive the ‘The Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship’.

I was appointed in 2002, at Tokarara, June Valley. The chairman at the time was told by the Department of Justice that he had to have females in his village court or else they would not allow his court to function. He saw me reading a bible in the church one day, and must have said to himself, “This could be an ideal lady to be a village court magistrate.”