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954 datasets found for "vocab_regions:"Melanesia""

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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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Papuan Perspectives on Family Planning, Fertility and Birth Control

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Papuan perspectives on family planning have historically emphasised political concerns that reflect the tensions between the Indonesian state and indigenous rights – Papuans have...
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Bougainville Young Women’s Leadership Research

Pacific Women Lead Publications

For this research, 12 young Bougainvillean women were trained in research methods. Six teams of two women then undertook research in six districts, covering the three regions of...
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Pawa Blong Meri: Women Candidates in the 2015 Bougainville Election

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The 2015 Bougainville election saw a record number of women candidates, and a record number of women were elected. While one in three open constituencies had at least one woman candidate,...
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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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The 2013 Survey on HIV in Tanah Papua: Gender, Ethnicity and ‘Casual Partners’

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This paper reports that in Tanah Papua (the western half of the island of New Guinea, currently comprising the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua), there was an HIV prevalence...
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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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Step-by-Step: Climbing the ‘Ladder of Freedom and Power’ in Fiji and PNG

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Fiji and PNG were part of the World Bank’s qualitative study informing the World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development, for which local researchers organised focus...
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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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Power, Politics and Coalitions in the Pacific: Lessons from Collective Action on Gender and Power

Pacific Women Lead Publications

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: What...
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Building gender equity through a Family Teams approach

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This monograph describes an approach to farmer learning and agricultural extension known as the ‘Family Teams’ approach used in a project to improve the uptake and impact of training and...
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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,...
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The Relationship between VAW and WEE in Bougainville

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The Bougainville Do No Harm research confirms that women do not always gain greater empowerment when they bring money into the household because their access to economic resources does...
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Alcohol, Gender and Violence in Bougainville

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This short paper draws on research undertaken in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in 2015. It specifically explored the relationship between women’s economic empowerment and violence...
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Review of Counselling Services in the Pacific

Pacific Women Lead Publications

To better understand the nature and availability of counselling services for gender-based violence, a survey involving a self-assessment questionnaire was conducted to map counselling...
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The Last Taboo: Research on Managing Menstruation in the Pacific

Pacific Women Lead Publications

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 of...