{"id":5044,"date":"2019-07-30T13:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T04:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/30\/children-in-pacific-suffer-shockingly-high-levels-of-violence-report-finds"},"modified":"2019-07-30T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T04:23:57","slug":"children-in-pacific-suffer-shockingly-high-levels-of-violence-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5044","title":{"rendered":"Children in Pacific suffer &#8216;shockingly high&#8217; levels of violence, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aid organisations call out \u2018dramatic underinvestment\u2019 by Australia and other donors in tackling \u2018endemic\u2019 problem<\/p>\n<p>Violence against children in the Pacific region has reached \u201cendemic\u201d levels, with children subject to brutal physical discipline in the home, as well as sexual violence, a new report has found.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4 million children across the region had experienced violent discipline in the home and in Papua New Guinea 27% of parents or caregivers used physical punishment \u201cover and over as hard as they could\u201d, the report by leading NGOs working in the region found.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/30\/children-in-pacific-suffer-shockingly-high-levels-of-violence-report-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid organisations call out \u2018dramatic underinvestment\u2019 by Australia and other donors in tackling \u2018endemic\u2019 problemViolence against children in the Pacific region has reached \u201cendemic\u201d levels, with children subject to brutal physical discipline in the ho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,267,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-papua-new-guinea","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}