Call for women’s rights in Papua New Guinea getting louder than ever
Erica George – Pacific Scoop - Wednesday, 20 October, 2010 (originally published 17 Oct)
Papua New Guinea’s Tapora Isorua: Fighting the politicians for women’s human rights. Image: PMC Files
Papua New Guinea’s Tapora Isorua: Fighting the politicians for women’s human rights. Image: PMC Files
Two women from Papua New Guinea flew half way around the world this year to attend a United Nations assembly in New York – to demand their government take responsibility for the ongoing violence faced by women. But with the country’s sole woman parliamentarian set to retire by 2012, many fear the situation will get worse.
This was the same day the Papua New Guinea government was due to report back on the progress it had made towards protecting the rights of its women.
But these women had seen no progress so they were forced to take to an international stage to urge their government put in place a solid policy and finally address the “staggering acts of family, community and sexual violence against women” in Papua New Guinea. . .
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