{"id":37522,"date":"2021-10-01T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/oct\/01\/women-in-papua-new-guinea-are-suffering-an-epidemic-of-violence-the-government-must-act"},"modified":"2021-10-01T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T20:00:10","slug":"png-must-act-now-to-stop-the-epidemic-of-violence-against-women-and-girls-stephanie-mclennan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37522","title":{"rendered":"PNG must act now to stop the epidemic of violence against women and girls | Stephanie McLennan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year 15,444 cases of domestic violence were reported but only 250 people were prosecuted and 100 convicted. Victims deserve better<\/p>\n<p>A woman is beaten every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedforequalitypng.com\/\">30 seconds<\/a> in Papua New Guinea, and more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedforequalitypng.com\/\">1.5 million people<\/a> experience gender-based violence in the country each year.<\/p>\n<p>On 3 September in Mt Hagen, one of the country\u2019s largest cities, three men were <a href=\"https:\/\/postcourier.com.pg\/court-frees-suspects\/\">released from prison<\/a> after being accused of murdering a 31-year-old woman, <a href=\"https:\/\/postcourier.com.pg\/prisoner-in-her-own-home\/\">Imelda Tupi Tiamanda<\/a>. One of the men was her husband.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/oct\/01\/women-in-papua-new-guinea-are-suffering-an-epidemic-of-violence-the-government-must-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year 15,444 cases of domestic violence were reported but only 250 people were prosecuted and 100 convicted. Victims deserve betterA woman is beaten every 30 seconds in Papua New Guinea, and more than 1.5 million people experience gender-based viol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37523,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522\/revisions\/37523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}