#MeToo protest hit by violence in Papua New Guinea
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#MeToo protest hit by violence in Papua New Guinea
AFP / Jun 9, 2021, 15:23 IST
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PORT MORESBY: Violence has marred a rare #MeToo protest in Papua New Guinea s capital with angry male counter-protesters disrupting proceedings and attacking media, spurring calls on Wednesday for a police investigation.
Hundreds gathered at the University of Papua New Guinea Tuesday to protest sexual harassment and the abuse of women on campus, carrying banners reading It Ends Here .
Gendered violence is rife in the country, where the UN has estimated that two-thirds of women experience some form of domestic abuse.
Papua New Guinea – ICRC Activities 2020
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Missing persons: The Right to know
Many people go missing during conflict or war causing anguish and uncertainty for their families and friends. In the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, families of those who went missing during the Bougainville Crisis (1988 to 1998) have the right under international humanitarian law to know what happened to their missing relatives.
In 2020, the ICRC:
interviewed dozens of families in Siwai and Topinang communities in Bougainville to raise awareness on those missing and to better understand the needs and interests of their families
supported families in organizing traditional ceremonies to remember loved ones and in the construction of memorial monuments to commemorate missing relatives in Central and South Bougainville
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A vegetable farm in PNG.for a long time data has suggested that in fact hunger is widespread in the country. Picture: SUPPLIED
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is often presented as a country with little hunger.
The idea of subsistence affluence was developed in PNG in the 1970s to elucidate a situation in which people ate what they grew, and grew enough not to be hungry.
That idea has persisted. Writing in 2007 on poverty in PNG, Diana Cammack reported the widespread view that in the rural areas of PNG there is little hunger. Some experts support the idea as well.
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