Zama Coursen-Neff: Where Violence Against Women Is Rampant. Papua New Guinea has made the international news again with a horrific story to reinforce stereotypes about the country: sorcery, sex, and fire. On January 6, a group of men reportedly stripped a woman naked, bound her hands and feet, stuffed a cloth in her mouth, and burned her alive on a dumpsite. Rumor has it that she had "confessed" to having eaten a man's heart.
But in all likelihood, this will turn out to be a more typical story from that country: a brutal killing of a woman that goes unprosecuted, unpunished, and forgotten. In Papua New Guinea, research indicates, two-thirds of women experience domestic violence, and 50 percent of women have experienced forced sex. The Australian development agency AUSAID just issued a new report identifying violence against women as a major barrier to Papua New Guinea's development. The truth in the latest case may be more like what happened almost exactly one year before. And the world needs to keep watching. Tapora and Sarah, two women from Papua New Guinea, report to the UN's CEDAW Committee. Stand up with women in Papua New Guinea. Increasing sorcery-related killings in Papua New Guinea.
Culture of Papua New Guinea - traditional, history, people, clothing, traditions, women, beliefs, food, customs, family, social, dress, marriage, men, life, population, rituals, History and ethnic relations. Culture Name Papua New Guinean Alternative Names Niugini (Pidgin English) Orientation Identification. Location and Geography. The central mountain chain extends the length of the island and is covered in tropical rain forest. Papua New Guinea has a tropical monsoon climate and is generally hot and humid, although the climate varies from one area to another. Over 75 percent of the nation is covered in rain forest. Demography. Linguistic Affiliation. Papua New Guinea Symbolism. History and Ethnic Relations Emergence of the Nation.
Colonization and change were uneven, with island and coastal areas colonized before the interior and some groups resisting change for decades. National Identity. The focus on higher education was matched by efforts to foster closeness and national pride among the students that would cut across ties with wantoks (those in the same language group) and flow outward to the rest of the country. Ethnic Relations. Food and Economy Food in Daily Life. DomesticViolenceFactSheet(National) WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women.
Author: Claudia García Moreno Henrica A.F.M. Jansen Mary Ellsberg Lori Heis Affiliation: World Health Organization This report presents initial results of a study implemented by the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) in the USA, research institutions and women's organisations in the participating countries. The study found that one quarter to one half of all women who had been physically assaulted by their partners said that they had suffered physical injuries as a direct result.
Domestic violence is known to affect women's sexual and reproductive health and may contribute to increased risk of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. The report makes the following recommendations: Violence against Women - Gender Issues. Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread violations of human rights. It can include physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuse, and it cuts across boundaries of age, race, culture, wealth and geography. It takes place in the home, on the streets, in schools, the workplace, in farm fields, refugee camps, during conflicts and crises. It has many manifestations — from the most universally prevalent forms of domestic and sexual violence, to harmful practices, abuse during pregnancy, so-called honour killings and other types of femicide.
International and regional legal instruments have clarified obligations of States to prevent, eradicate and punish violence against women and girls. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) requires that countries party to the Convention take all appropriate steps to end violence. Violence against women and girls has far-reaching consequences, harming families and communities. ABC The Drum - Feminism is failing in the war against women. Updated Tue 28 Sep 2010, 3:33pm AEST In a chilling ABC radio interview last week, a young Palestinian man calmly described how he repeatedly smashed his sister's head against the wall until he killed her. Khaled Mahmood explained this was an "honour" killing, as his sister had shamed the family by sleeping with a man of her choice. She had to be obliterated. It seems the police agreed. In some parts of the world, not only do fathers, brothers and husbands own a woman's body, they own her virtue.
This, of course, is an impossible burden for any woman to carry. Afghan teenager Aishia learned that last year, when she was pinned down as her husband cut off her nose and ears, because she tried to escape his family's abuse. For the hundreds of thousands of women killed, maimed, or savagely beaten for expressing their free will, "honour" doesn't come into it.
There is a totalising ideology on the march across the world, and it's anti-women. Has feminism failed? Has feminism failed? Human rights key to achieving Development Goals.