East Asia Forum

What’s next for women in PNG politics?

For the first time in 20 years, Papua New Guinea has no women at all in its 111-seat national parliament. While a record 167 women (5 per cent of the total 3340 candidates), including the three female ...
Papua New Guinea Today

Miss Western Highlands Crowned New Miss Bird of Paradise PNG

PNG Latest News, PNG Breaking News, PNG Business News, PNG Sports News, PNG Mining News, PNG Economy News, PNG Corruption ...
Sydney Morning Herald

PNG women subjected to horrifying domestic violence

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sophie Mangai, a tall, wiry 60-year-old grandmother and battle-scarred women's rights advocate, leads a protest through downtown Wewak ...
Crikey

Women in PNG: blue ribbon for abuse, white for violence

Family and s-xual violence is a crisis facing the women and children of Papua New Guinea. Recent data shows that 50% of PNG’s women have been r-ped in their own homes and 68% of women have been ...
Lowy Institute

Violence against women in PNG: How men are getting away with murder

In a new Lowy Institute Analysis published today, Jo Chandler presents a devastating picture of the endemic violence against women in Papua New Guinea and the role Australia can play in supporting ...
Lowy Institute

The Orchids’ tale: PNG’s women’s rugby league team

I never set out to make a film. But, as many filmmakers seem to discover, the story found me. I have always been interested in the power of sport, and in 2014 I moved to Papua New Guinea to work in ...
Couriermail

Violent attacks carried out against PNG woman falsely accused of sorcery

THE brutal murder of a young woman who was burned alive after she was accused of sorcery has sparked outrage in PNG. Twenty-year-old Kepari Leniata was stripped naked, tortured with a hot iron rod, ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Coronavirus fears leave pregnant PNG women at risk despite nation's low infection rate

As fear of the global coronavirus pandemic gripped the world in April, a 19-year-old woman arrived at the Port Moresby General Hospital looking for help. PNG has nine confirmed COVID-19 cases, but ...
SBS

The women's rugby team tackling domestic violence in PNG

A young girl, wearing a pressed school uniform and carrying a purple backpack, stops to watch as a group of boys plays a casual game of rugby. It's is a brief moment in the documentary Power Meri, but ...
Sydney Morning Herald

PNG women suffering awful violence on Australia's doorstep

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the early evening on Friday, a woman arrived at hospital, bloody stumps instead of fingers on her right hand, her left hand all but ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Violence against women in PNG an 'emergency', says Human Rights Watch

The Papua New Guinea government is failing to protect victims of family violence, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report, titled Bashed Up: Family Violence in PNG, found that ...