Tag: Gender-based violence
A Wall of Shame – but do Pacific Islanders even notice...
The fifth report in a five-part series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women that took place in the Marshall Islands last...
70 years on from tests, Marshallese women still fight for nuclear...
The first report in a five-part web series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women taking place in the Marshall Islands this...
Golriz Ghahraman’s exit from politics shows the toll of online bullying...
ANALYSIS: By Cassandra Mudgway, University of Canterbury
The high-stress nature of working in politics is increasingly taking a toll on staff and politicians. But an...
PNG’s censorship office bans Jayrex songs over partner abuse allegations
By Phoebe Gwangilo in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Censorship Office has cracked down on gender-based violence by temporarily banning all songs by popular...
PNG daily Post-Courier joins fight against gender-based violence
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
The Post-Courier daily newspaper is one of 15 companies in Papua New Guinea that have pledged to fight against...
Parkop calls for full probe into brutal murders of two Moresby...
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop wants the city’s police to fully investigate the gruesome murder...
PNG police arrest suspect in torture and killing of women in...
The National
A Papua New Guinean primary school teacher has been arrested for allegedly torturing a woman with a hot knife in sorcery-related violence in...
Still no justice for PNG sorcery burning victim Kepari Leniata after...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Nine years ago widespread publicity given to the public execution of Kepari Leniata, who was falsely accused of sorcery...
‘Enough is enough’, say PNG women over gender crimes by ‘callous...
By Mark Talia in Port Moresby
"Enough is enough," is the impassioned plea of the women, mothers and daughters of Papua New Guinea, says Mea...
Christmas on the street for PNG survivor of jailed wife basher
By Rebecca Kuku and Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
As families prepare to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones, a safe house in Papua New...
Domestic violence row forces French police chief in Noumea to stand...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has criticised the circumstances which led to last week's resignation of the new French police commander...
Marape tells PNG police they should be ‘doing their job’ over...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Prime Minister James Marape says Papua New Guineans who continue to commit crimes under the pretext of "sorcery" must...
‘It gives us nightmares,’ says PNG police officer dealing with domestic...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
“We take the pain and problems of victims home and it gives us nightmares many times.”
A police woman serving at the...
Protect women accused of ‘sorcery’ and punish attackers, watchdog tells PNG
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Papua New Guinean government should protect women accused of practicing “sorcery” from violence and hold the attackers to account, says...
PNG woman tortured and killed in horrifying video over ‘sorcery’
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A Papua New Guinean woman accused of killing a two-year-old boy through sorcery was assaulted, tortured and killed after...
Prosecuting gender violence culprits still a problem, Parkop tells women
By Janet Kari in Lae, PNG
Prosecution of perpetrators of gender-based violence around the country still remains a massive problem for Papua New Guinea, says...
Yes, politicians need to change the way they treat women. But...
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne
There has been a lot of talk lately about the need for cultural change in Australia's Parliament...
‘Crisis within a crisis’: Violence more risky for Fiji women than...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Sheldon Chanel in Suva
Much of archipelagic Fiji was forced indoors by lockdowns and a nationwide curfew in March last year when...
Judge jails businessman 15 years for ‘cowardly attack’ on ex-Miss PNG
By Zedaiah Kanau in Port Moresby
A Papua New Guinean businessman who caused the death of his girlfriend by punching her, forcing her to jump...
Call for PNG police and courts to work closely with media...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's police and courts must work closely with media for transparency to inform the public on the daily investigation...
PNG health survey shows 56% of women suffer violence at age...
By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby
Key findings from the 2016 to 2018 Papua New Guinea Demographic and Health Survey reveals that 56 percent of...
The National: Let’s play our part to end gender violence in...
The National editorial
Hundreds walked the Sir John Guise drive on Thursday calling for justice for the brutal death of 19-year-old mother-of-two – Jenelyn Kennedy...