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Samoa Family Health and Safety Study

The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications

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 partner. 18.6%...
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Sorcery and Witchcraft in Papua New Guinea: Problems in Definition

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This short paper looks at how the terms ‘sorcery’ and ‘witchcraft’ are frequently fused or used interchangeably, and are rarely conceptually distinguished. This blurring of the two occurs...
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Vanuatu National Survey on Women’s Lives and Family Relationships

Pacific Women Lead Publications

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 sexual...
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National Study on Domestic Violence on Women in Tonga

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The Tongan study shows that violence against women is prevalent: 79% of Tongan women and girls have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. 68% of Tongan women and...
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Due Diligence and State Responsibility to End Violence Against Women: Standards, Indicators and Good Practices

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The project aims to add content to the international legal principle of due diligence in the context of state responsibility to end violence against women. It seeks to create compliance...
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Kiribati Family Health and Support Study

The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications

The Kiribati study shows that violence against women is prevalent: More than 2 in 3 (68%) ever-partnered women aged 15–49 reported experiencing physical or sexual violence, or both, by an...
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Violence Against Women in PNG: How Men Are Getting Away With Murder

Pacific Women Lead Publications

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 justice....
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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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Mapping Paper: Private Sector Responses to Ending Violence Against Women in the Pacific

Pacific Women Lead Publications

This mapping paper includes examples of efforts by the private sector in the Pacific to address violence against women and provides examples of how States can begin to calculate the costs...
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Do No Harm: The Relationship between VAW and Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Pacific

Pacific Women Lead Publications

Even as the importance of women’s economic inclusion and empowerment is acknowledged and acted on, it is also known that such gains are not without risk; for increasing command over...
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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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Transforming Workplace Norms in PNG: The Role of the Business Coalition for Women

Pacific Women Lead Publications

The link between women’s economic empowerment and the elimination of violence is pertinent in Papua New Guinea. Significant and persistent gender disparities limit the capacity of all...
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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...
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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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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...