The second time I met Sergeant Alice Arigo of the Tari Family and Sexual Violence Unit (FSVU), who is known in the community as Alice, she was taking down the statement of a woman who had been br...
https://devpolicy.org/bearing-the-heavy-load-of-hela-provinces-family-violence-20240423/
Gender Based Violence (GBV), especially intimate partner violence, is a grave concern in Papua New Guinea, where the rate of violence against women is around 80%. One in two women in the country ...
https://devpolicy.org/youth-awareness-of-domestic-violence-laws-in-png/
About the author/sAmita MonterolaResearch Communications Coordinator at the Development Policy Centre. ABOUT THE AUTHOR/S AMITA MONTEROLA Research Communications Coordinator at the Development ...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects 80% of women in Papua New Guinea, a rate that may be the highest in the world. This blog draws on a sample of 152 cases (out of over 2,000 cases in total) ...
https://devpolicy.org/intimate-partner-violence-in-port-moresby-drivers-and-outcomes-20240118/
The Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, last month committed to a revitalised gender equality declaration. This declaration, spearheaded by the Pacific Islands Forum...
https://devpolicy.org/do-no-harm-supporting-pacific-women-leaders-20231215/
First introduced in high-income countries, restraining or protection orders aim to prevent further domestic and family violence by imposing civil court orders, that if breached result in a crimin...
https://devpolicy.org/family-protection-orders-in-the-pacific-region-20230321/
According to recent research, Papua New Guinea is one of the three countries in the world with the highest prevalence of lifetime intimate partner violence against women. This blog examines four ...
https://devpolicy.org/rethinking-perceptions-of-spousal-violence-in-png-20230222/
On 30 August 1992, three ni-Vanuatu women were on a plane back home to Port Vila, after attending a workshop in Suva with grassroots women from across the Pacific region. Three days later, the Va...
https://devpolicy.org/thirty-years-of-the-vanuatu-womens-centre-her-story-20230125/
About the author/sLydia PapandreaLydia is the Managing Editor of Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies and Co-editor of the DevPolicy Blog. ABOUT THE AUTHOR/S LYDIA PAPANDREA Lydia is the Managin...
https://devpolicy.org/publications/dp102-weaponising-alleged-sexual-assault-on-manus-20220725/
I’ll never forget the time I saw a grown man punch a woman in the face. Repeatedly. Not on the telly or internet, but “in real life”, as my four-year-old daughter would say. It was 2008 and...
https://devpolicy.org/art-and-violence-in-papua-new-guinea-20220601/