Tag: Rape
UPNG’s student body rejects rape allegations over campus video
By Bramo Tingkeo in Port Moresby
A disturbing video has surfaced of a female, alleged to be a rape victim, attempting to jump out of...
‘We chose death over being raped’ – PNG kidnap survivor speaks...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
A woman who was part of a group kidnapped in Papua...
PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them
By Majeleen Yanei in Port Moresby
Seventeen Papua New Guinean schoolgirls who were kidnapped, raped and held hostage by armed men in Bosavi, Hela, last...
‘Sleepless nights’ admits PNG’s security minister over stretched police
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Internal Security Minister Peter Tsiamalili Jr says the Royal PNG Constabulary is "stretched" with only 5000...
PNG’s death penalty law repealed in shake up over criminal justice
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's death penalty Act of 1984 has been repealed by the National Parliament and all prisoners on death row...
PNG church workers plead for more police help to end gang...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinean church workers working behind the scenes to help the terrorised people of the Nankina valley in Madang’s Rai Coast district...
Timor-Leste: Political leadership, patriarchal relationships, and the paedophile ex-priest
ANALYSIS: By Sara Niner
Xanana Gusmao’s recent contrived jovial participation in the birthday celebrations of "self-professed" paedophile and defrocked foreign priest Richard Daschbach has shocked many...
PNG sex workers plead for help after one gang-raped, beaten, left...
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Sex workers have urged the Papua New Guinea government to pass a law to protect them after one of...
Vanuatu child killer given life sentence in justice for little Florence
By Richard M. Nanua and Glenda Willie in Port Vila
A Vanuatu child rapist and murderer has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
The sentence — one...
Scrap workers deal with Saudi Arabia following execution, says Jakarta NGO
By Dian Septiari in Jakarta
The Migrant CARE advocacy group has called on Indonesia's Manpower Ministry to cancel a recent agreement with Saudi Arabia to...
India’s ‘tribal’ minister visits NZ for relationships but skirts rape culture
By Vandhna Bhan in Auckland
India's Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Jasvantsinh Bhabhor visited Auckland briefly last Saturday to talk about building international relations,...
Five PNG police officers sentenced to 87 years in jail for...
By Sally Pokiton in Wewak, Papua New Guinea
A former Papua New Guinean police station commander, Chief Inspector Sakawar Kasieng, has been sentenced to seven...
Women still not safe from sexual abuse in Indonesia’s ‘rape culture’
Special Correspondent in Jakarta
The Indonesian government’s response in the wake of a spate of rape and murder of young women and children this year...
Survivors of Indonesia’s 1965 purge desperately seek end to stigma
After more than half a century without clarity on the identity of perpetrators or those who orchestrated the event, some survivors and victims of...
Fiji police chief suspends nine officers accused in Soko death case
By Ellen Stolz in Suva
Niine Fiji police officers charged in relation to the death of Vilikesa Soko after he had been in custody in...
11,000 plus women abused a year, reports PNG police family unit
PNG Today/PNG TV
Up to 35 abused women go to the Boroko Family and Sexual Violence Unit a day in Papua New Guinea's capital Port...