Fiji: The Many Faces of Violence against Women
December 7, 2010FemLINK Pacific's 16 Days of Community Radio Campaign continues to serve as a platform for local women to speak out on issues that are connected to the annual women's human rights...
View ArticleAustralia: A push for sharia
May 17, 2011THE nation's peak Muslim group is using the Gillard government's re-embracing of multiculturalism to push for the introduction of sharia in Australia, but it says it would be a more...
View ArticleFiji: Police Shut down Fiji Women's Rights Movement birthday retreat
July 20, 2011Fiji Women's Rights Movement / WLUMLPolice closed down the Fiji’s Women’s Rights Movement’s (FWRM) retreat and planning at the Pearl resort in Pacific harbor this morning. At around...
View ArticleAustralia’s Honour killings – In the end, they’re just as dead
July 11, 2011Hoyden About TownJames Ramage was released from prison last Friday, after only eight years following his conviction for strangling and bashing his wife, Julie, to death in their house and...
View ArticleAustralia: Court Action Against Forced Marriage of Girl
September 30, 2011Sydney Morning HeraldAn Australian court has placed a 16-year-old girl on the airport watch list to prevent an arranged marriage taking place in Lebanon.The girl, who cannot be named...
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Australia: Aboriginal & African Women Leaders Meet to Share Culture & Social...
October 27, 2011Perth NowAboriginal and African leaders have come together for a historic meeting at Murdoch University. The meeting, which occurred yesterday morning, was the first time the two...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea: Police Cite Bride Price Major Factor in Marital Violence
November 21, 2011Island BusinessBride price is the major contributing factor today that’s why married men feel they can do anything to their wives, a senior Papua New Guinea police officer says. Minj...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea: Violence Against Women Accused of Sorcery
December 6, 2011UN OHCHRThe belief in black magic, sorcery, evil spirits and witches is widespread in the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea: this superstition is called Saguma.
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Violence against women, Papua New Guinea's "silent war"
February 2, 2012Trust LawAid workers say a combination of poverty, lack of education and an entrenched patriarchal system may explain the horrific levels of violence against women in Papua New Guinea.
View ArticlePapua New Guinea: VAW, Sorcery-Related Killings, and Forced Evictions
May, 2011Amnesty International Report to UPRThis submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review of Papua New Guinea (PNG) in May 2011. In this, Amnesty International expresses concern at...
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USA: Bishop urges change in 'church teaching concerning all sexual...
March 16, 2012National Catholic ReporterBALTIMORE -- At the Seventh National Symposium on Catholicism and Homosexuality, retired Australian Bishop Geoffrey Robinson called Friday for "a new study of...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea: Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women calls for...
March 26, 2012UN OHCHRPORT MORESBY (26 March 2012) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo called* on the Government of Papua New Guinea to reinforce legal and support mechanisms in its...
View ArticleAustralia: Minorities fear their cultures smeared by reports of domestic...
April 17, 2012Sydney Morning HeraldJoumanah El Matrah, from the Australian Muslim Women's Centre for Human Rights, said when groups tried to draw the government's attention to violence against minority...
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