Tag: Gender violence

Athletes from the Papua New Guinea’s national team joined the peaceful "cry for justice" march in the nation's capital of Port Moresby. Video: EMTV...

OPEN LETTER: From Dame Meg Taylor to the people of Papua New Guinea I write this as a Papua New Guinean and a daughter of...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Bhosip Kaiwi, the man accused of murder in the Papua New Guinean torture case, will be held at the Correctional Services...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Young Papua New Guinean mother-of-two Jenelyn Kennedy died from “head injury and bruised internal organs”, according to a doctor...

By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby The care of duty supposed to be provided to the young Papua New Guinean mother Jenelyn Kennedy killed last...

Pacific Media Watch Host Sherry Zhang interviewed the director of the Pacific Media Centre, Professor David Robie, about the tragic life and death of Jenelyn...

Pacific Media Watch Protesters in Papua New Guinea and on social media have launched calls for tougher laws to protect women and girls from gender-based...

This is part of the front page of Papua New Guinea's The National this weekend. Normally we would not publish such a harrowing image...

By EMTV News Jenelyn Kennedy eloped with her partner at a tender age of 15, bore him his first child at age of 16, and...

Pacific Media Centre Offences perpetrated by members of Papua New Guinea's disciplinary forces have become prevalent in the country during the coronavirus pandemic, says National...

Pacific Media Watch Violence against women is at epidemic proportions in the Asia Pacific. The region’s governments, if they are to find ways of preventing domestic...

By Pauline Mago-King Seventeen women journalists from the Asia-Pacific region gathered in the Victorian capital of Melbourne this week to work on an empowerment strategy...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Advocacy groups have called on children and young people to defeat the "ultimate supervillain" – silence – to help end violence...

New Zealand steps up campaigns through supporting non-government organisations and groups to raise awareness and groups and help support victims of domestic violence. But,...

By Jessica Marshall in Auckland The Solomon Islands faces a “time bomb” with a youth unemployment rate of 82 percent and New Zealand needs to...

The Papua New Guinean government has been working tirelessly to clean up its capital city in preparation for APEC, instead of attending to serious...

By Sheany in Jakarta The National Commission on Violence Against Women, or Komnas Perempuan, has called on the government to do more to protect women's...

By Rizki Halim in Yogyakarta Dozens of women held a rally at the Zero Kilometre point in Indonesia's Central Java city of Yogyakarta to commemorate...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk To mark International Women’s Day tomorrow, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing a report entitled “Women’s rights: Forbidden subject” which sheds...

By Staycey Yalo in Port Moresby The final autopsy report on Post-Courier journalist Rosalyn Albaniel Evara, handed to the Papua New Guinean Coroner’s Court last...

ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide in Lae, Papua New Guinea In the early hours of October 23, 2017, a woman in her late 40s was dragged...

The Family, Sexual, Violence Actions office in Port Moresby has condemned news of women being violently abused in Papua New Guinea with manager Ruth...