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PNG Highlands Women's Human Rights Defenders Network
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... -
Savina Nogebatu talks about Women with Disabilities in the Solomon Islands
Savina Nongebatu reflects on the experiences of women with disabilities in the Solomon Islands - the challenges they face and support they need - as well as shares her vision... -
Women's Economic Empowerment and COVID-19 in the Pacific: Webinar
This webinar aimed to identify measures for a gender-aware and feminist response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and girls in the Pacific. It also sought to... -
Women’s Economic Empowerment – Practice and Policy Implications from the...
This paper encourages a more targeted focus on women’s economic empowerment through private sector development partnerships, not least through a greater mutual allocation of... -
A Deeper Silence: The Unheard Experiences of Women with Disabilities –...
Similarities across the situation analyses in Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Tonga include: Women with disabilities make significant contributions to their communities. However,... -
Samoa Family Health and Safety Study
The Samoan study shows that violence against women is prevalent: 37.6% of women who have ever been in a relationship are likely to have experienced physical abuse by their... -
Vanuatu National Survey on Women’s Lives and Family Relationships
The Vanuatu study shows that violence against women is prevalent: Among women who have ever had an intimate sexual relationship with a partner, 60% experienced physical and/or... -
Pacific Sisters with Disabilities at the Intersection of Discrimination
This report considers each of the key areas of discrimination and disadvantage. Key interrelationships between the various challenges are discussed to illustrate the complexity... -
Violence Against Women in PNG: How Men Are Getting Away With Murder
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... -
New Draft National Action Plan to Address Sorcery Accusation-Related Violence in PNG
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... -
Developing Insecurity: Sorcery, Witchcraft and Melanesian Economic Development
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:... -
Sorcery Cases in Papua New Guinea’s Village Courts: Legal Innovation Part IV
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... -
An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Practices in SGBV Cases in PICs
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... -
Gender Research in the Pacific 1994-2014: Beginnings
This study deals with research on eight critical areas of concern covered in the Revised Pacific Platform for Action 2005-2015: education, health, climate change and... -
Developing Good Practice in Workplace Responses to Family and Sexual Violence in PNG
Findings from participatory action research undertaken with family and sexual violence service providers, advocates, businesses, and their employees in Papua New Guinea strongly... -
Power, Politics and Coalitions in the Pacific: Lessons from Collective...
The case studies of coalitions in Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea and Tonga highlight four influential factors in the formation and functioning of coalitions: Formative events:... -
Gender Violence & Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, PNG and Vanuatu
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,... -
The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific
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... -
The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific Fiji
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... -
The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific - Solomon Island
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...
