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Gun violence

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Dataset

Women, mobile phones, and M16s: Contemporary New Guinea highlands warfare
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HIDDEN AND NEGLECTED: The Medical and Emotional Needs of Survivors of Family and Sexual Violence in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Data Portal Publications

Highlights the urgent, unmet medical and emotional needs of survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea and recommends concrete action in order to meet these needs.
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PNG Highlands Women's Human Rights Defenders Network

Pacific Women Lead Video

Monica Paulus from the Women's Human Rights Defenders Network (WHRDN) Papua New Guinea works in one of the most isolated and challenging parts of the country. WHRDNprovides support to...
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This is my Dream (Jobecca Watinga)

Pacific Women Lead Video

What’s your dream to make life better? Jobecca Watinga sings her dream to be free to walk safely on the streets, with her head held high, without fear or harassment. This is the new...
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UN Multi Country Study on Men and Violence

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This report provides findings from a study conducted with men in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea on their use of violence against women. The study...
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Sorcery and Witchcraft in Papua New Guinea: Problems in Definition

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This short paper looks at how the terms ‘sorcery’ and ‘witchcraft’ are frequently fused or used interchangeably, and are rarely conceptually distinguished. This blurring of the two occurs...
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Violence Against Women in PNG: How Men Are Getting Away With Murder

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The women of Papua New Guinea endure some of the most extreme levels of violence in the world. They continue to be attacked with impunity despite their government’s promises of justice....
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‘A Woman Should Be Beaten If She Deserves Punishment’: Conversations with Men and Women in Fiji and PNG

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Among the consequences of conflict over gender roles or norms, the most disempowering one is violence against women. As part of the World Bank’s qualitative study informing the World...
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Preventing Violence at Home, Allowing Violence in the Workplace: A Case Study of Security Guards in PNG

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This short paper draws on the views shared by security guards who participated in discussion groups as part of a larger research project that explores how men interpret and respond to...
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Transforming Workplace Norms in PNG: The Role of the Business Coalition for Women

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The link between women’s economic empowerment and the elimination of violence is pertinent in Papua New Guinea. Significant and persistent gender disparities limit the capacity of all...
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New Draft National Action Plan to Address Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in PNG

Pacific Women Lead Publications

In 2013, widespread publicity given to the deaths of two women accused of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea drew international and national attention to the problem of sorcery and witchcraft...
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Home-Brewed Alcohol, Gender and Violence in the West Papuan Highlands

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The production and consumption of home-brew in the highlands is adding a dangerous ingredient to already volatile ethnic, gendered, and political conditions. While scholars have typically...
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Witch hunts in Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands Province: A Fieldwork Report

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The issue of sorcery and witchcraft-related accusations and violence in Papua New Guinea is receiving increasing attention domestically and internationally. A growing body of literature...
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Big Men Drink Beer; Drunk Big Men Do Not Hit Women

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Numerous studies show obvious links between alcohol abuse and violence in Melanesia. In Papua New Guinea, alcohol is incorporated into sociality involving gift exchange and distribution...
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Developing Insecurity: Sorcery, Witchcraft and Melanesian Economic Development

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This paper draws explicit links between witchcraft and sorcery practices and beliefs in Melanesia, and poor development outcomes. It notes four distinct categories of impact: The...
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Sorcery Cases in Papua New Guinea’s Village Courts: Legal Innovation Part IV

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The Sorcery Act criminalised the use of sorcery for ‘evil purposes’. It was repealed in 2013 in the wake of several high profile and gruesome killings related to sorcery accusations,...
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Using Mobile Phones to Track Anti-Witchcraft Violence in Papua New Guinea

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This short paper details a pilot project using mobile phones to record and report data about accusations of witchcraft at funerals. The pilot is part of a growing body of work that uses...
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An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Practices in SGBV Cases in PICs

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This study analysed a random selection of 908 cases from seven Pacific Island countries, including 111 domestic violence cases and 787 sexual assault cases. Each case is analysed to...
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Developing Good Practice in Workplace Responses to Family and Sexual Violence in PNG

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Findings from participatory action research undertaken with family and sexual violence service providers, advocates, businesses, and their employees in Papua New Guinea strongly indicate...
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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,...