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Participatory Action Research: Strengthening Project Implementation
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Educators, defenders, advocates and activists these are all roles that women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. In the project From Gender Based...
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Reaching Rural Bougainville Through the Network of Women Human Rights Defenders
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Seventeen years ago, with just PGK1,000 in their pockets, the Sisters of Nazareth created a special place – the Nazareth Centre for Rehabilitation – that today benefits individuals and...
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Pasin Bilong Lukautim Pikinini Gut or Parenting for Child Development
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The findings of research are clear that reducing children’s exposure to family violence has significant benefits for their development and has the potential to break the cycle of family...
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Do No Harm Toolkit
Pacific Women Lead Publications
International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) has produced a toolkit that enables organisations to apply learning from the Do No Harm research to their project design, implementation...
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Supporting Government to End Sorcery Accusation - Related Violence
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The Government of Papua New Guinea has adopted a holistic multiple partner approach to ending violence that occurs in response to sorcery accusations through the 2015 Sorcery and...
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Using Family Based Models to Enhance Women’s Agency
Pacific Women Lead Publications
A number of projects funded by Pacific Women are using innovative, family-based approaches to help communities and families make decisions about issues such as family size, financial...
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Pacific Models of Male Advocacy Working to End Violence Against Women
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Pacific Women supports a range of activities that enable male advocates to be agents of change to end violence against women in communities across Pacific Island countries. The Male...
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Helping Duty Bearers to Uphold Their Responsibilities
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Duty bearers are some of the many being supported by Pacific Women partners to better serve women and children. Across countries, partners are addressing social norms that may act as a...
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South-South Exchanges
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Family support and crisis centres across the Pacific continue to assist each other to improve levels of expertise and service to support survivors of family and sexual violence.
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Dialling Up Services in Response to Covid-19
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Existing gender inequalities are magnified during a crisis, with women having considerably less autonomy and mobility leading to increases in men’s violence against women. To combat this...
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What works for gender transformative approaches in Papua New Guinea
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Positive gender transformative change is not only possible, it is happening in Papua New Guinea. This is detailed in the ‘What Works for Gender Transformative Approaches in Papua New...
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Pacific Practice Note: Opening Doors for Lasting Change – Gender Transformation in Practice
Pacific Women Lead Publications
Opening Doors for Lasting Change – Gender Transformation in Practice – sharing programming approaches that have led to gender transformative change in Papua New Guinea, to inform policy,...
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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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Witchcraft and Sorcery Related Killings in Melanesia: The Legal Issues
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This short paper identifies four central insights from a legal positive perspective into killings related to sorcery and witchcraft accusations: The belief in sorcery and witchcraft is a...
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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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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...