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History has lessons for the Anti-Violence-Against-Women Movement in PNG

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By PNG Echo For women in Papua New Guinea, this week has been variable. There have been both lows and highs. The good news is that the Strategic Plan to combat violence against women, which is a comprehensive document that understands the need for long-term planning, has been endorsed by the parliamentary National Executive Council (NEC) which is a huge first step in a long journey. The bad news is that it took the mutilation of a 19-year-old woman who had both her legs chopped off by a jealous husband to wake the relevant department from its reverie (it had Continue reading History has lessons for the Anti-Violence-Against-Women Movement in PNG→

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…then the crowd watched as they burned her alive.

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By PNG Echo It’s funny what gets etched into memory and what gets forgotten – I remember that today, February 6, is the birthday of the now adult twin boys of my childhood friend, whom I have not seen for decades. Today is also the anniversary of the brutal slaying of Kepari Leniata – and I had forgotten. Yet it was just one short year ago that this young mother, from Papua New Guinea was accused of witchcraft and publicly burned alive. How she suffered is unimaginable. After many hours of torture, with the perpetrators committing unspeakable acts of sexual violence Continue reading …then the crowd watched as they burned her alive.→

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