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Gender Violence & Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, PNG and Vanuatu
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as Fiji, Papua New Guinea nad Vanuatu and their communities and citizens engage with,...
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The Relationship between VAW and WEE in Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Bougainville Do No Harm research confirms that women do not always gain greater empowerment when they bring money into the household because their access to economic resources does...
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Alcohol, Gender and Violence in Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This short paper draws on research undertaken in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in 2015. It specifically explored the relationship between women’s economic empowerment and violence...
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Review of Counselling Services in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
To better understand the nature and availability of counselling services for gender-based violence, a survey involving a self-assessment questionnaire was conducted to map counselling...
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The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Key findings from this research into women’s and girl’s experiences of menstruation in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are: Adolescent girls and women face a number of...
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The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific Fiji
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Key findings from this research into women’s and girl’s experiences of menstruation in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are: Adolescent girls and women face a number of...
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The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific - Solomon Island
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Key findings from this research into women’s and girl’s experiences of menstruation in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are: Adolescent girls and women face a number of...
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The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific PNG
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Key findings from this research into women’s and girl’s experiences of menstruation in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are: Adolescent girls and women face a number of...
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The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific Literature Review
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Key findings from this research into women’s and girl’s experiences of menstruation in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are: Adolescent girls and women face a number of...
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Exploring Multidimensional Poverty in Fiji: Findings from a Study Using the Individual Deprivation Measure
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Poverty data in Fiji is derived from household income and expenditure data, collected via periodic Household Income and Expenditure Surveys. Given gender inequality within households can...
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Women’s Economic Empowerment and Escaping Violent Relationships
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This paper reports on research that found that increasing women’s savings or income does not necessarily lead to greater bargaining power within the household in Papua New Guinea. For...
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Sorcery Accusation Related Violence in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This major research study into sorcery accusation-related violence in Papua New Guinea found that over the past 20 years, an average of 72 people per year are victims of sorcery...
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Gender-Based and Sorcery-Related Violence in Papua New Guinea: An analysis of data collected from Oxfam partners 2013-2016
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report details data from 6,176 icidents of gender-based or sorcery accussation-related violence collected by seven women’s and human rights defenders’ organisations working across...
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Coffee is Men’s Business
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Men’s control of coffee in Papua New Guinea is not only an artefact of colonial agricultural extension but also a consequence of gender norms and the system of land tenure that privileges...
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Gender Challenges to Financial Inclusion in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This paper draws on research undertaken in 2015 among coffee smallholders in Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, focusing specifically on some of the challenges faced by women...
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Publications
Eves-Do-No-Harm-Report-PNG-2018
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in two provinces of Papua New Guinea and the Autonomous Region...
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Do No Harm Research Report: Papua New Guinea and Bougainville
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in two provinces of Papua New Guinea and the Autonomous Region...
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Do No Harm Research Report: Solomon Islands
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in Solomon Islands, found that any equation between women’s...
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Parenting for Child Development: Pilot Programme Evaluation Report
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Violence against children and women is a problem in many parts of Papua New Guinea. Parenting programs have shown promise in preventing violence and neglect of children, as well as...
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Kauntim-mi-tu-Final-POM-Report-09Jan2018
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The findings this study into HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), called Kauntim mi tu – Port Moresby, provide an improved roadmap for treatment, care and provision of other...