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Developing Insecurity: Sorcery, Witchcraft and Melanesian Economic Development
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:... -
Sorcery Cases in Papua New Guinea’s Village Courts: Legal Innovation Part IV
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 It was repealed in 2013 in the wake of several high profile and gruesome killings related to sorcery... -
Using Mobile Phones to Track Anti-Witchcraft Violence in Papua New Guinea
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... -
An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Practices in SGBV Cases in PICs
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... -
Developing Good Practice in Workplace Responses to Family and Sexual Violence in PNG
Findings from participatory action research undertaken with family and sexual violence service providers, advocates, businesses, and their employees in Papua New Guinea strongly... -
Gender Violence & Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, PNG and Vanuatu
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,... -
Alcohol, Gender and Violence in Bougainville
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... -
Review of Counselling Services in the Pacific
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... -
Women’s Economic Empowerment and Escaping Violent Relationships
This paper reports on research that found that increasing women’s savings or income does not necessarily lead to greater bargaining power within the household in Papua New... -
Sorcery Accusation Related Violence in Papua New Guinea
This major research study into sorcery accusation-related violence in Papua New Guinea found that over the past 20 years, an average of 72 people per year are victims of sorcery... -
Gender-Based and Sorcery-Related Violence in Papua New Guinea: An analysis...
This report details data from 6,176 icidents of gender-based or sorcery accussation-related violence collected by seven women’s and human rights defenders’ organisations working... -
Coffee is Men’s Business
Men’s control of coffee in Papua New Guinea is not only an artefact of colonial agricultural extension but also a consequence of gender norms and the system of land tenure that... -
Gender Challenges to Financial Inclusion in Papua New Guinea
This paper draws on research undertaken in 2015 among coffee smallholders in Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, focusing specifically on some of the challenges... -
Eves-Do-No-Harm-Report-PNG-2018
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in two provinces of Papua New Guinea and the... -
Do No Harm Research Report: Papua New Guinea and Bougainville
This research, exploring connections between women’s economic empowerment initiatives and increased violence against women in two provinces of Papua New Guinea and the... -
Kauntim-mi-tu-Final-POM-Report-09Jan2018
The findings this study into HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), called Kauntim mi tu – Port Moresby, provide an improved roadmap for treatment, care and provision... -
Kauntim mi tu – Port Moresby
The findings this study into HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), called Kauntim mi tu – Port Moresby, provide an improved roadmap for treatment, care and provision... -
Do No Harm Research Project Report: Women in Formal Employment Survey
The State, Society and Governance in Melanesia program at the Australian National University and the International Women’s Development Agency undertook the Do No Harm research... -
Presentation: Ten things learned about sorcery accusations and related...
Violence related to accusations of sorcery is a serious problem. It can lead to economic disempowerment, poor health, insecurity, persecution and violence, including torture and... -
DevPolicyBlog_Family-protection-orders-in-Lae-some-positive-signs
A report from Femili PNG and the Australian National University (ANU) shows that the issuing of protection orders by the Lae District Court is becoming more efficient. The data,...