{"id":73665,"date":"2025-08-27T09:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2025\/aug\/27\/reducing-violence-against-women-png-papua-new-guinea"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:12:55","slug":"the-women-breaking-the-cycle-of-violence-in-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73665","title":{"rendered":"The women breaking the cycle of violence in Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across the country leaders and advocates work to tackle the root causes of an \u2018epidemic\u2019 that affects two-thirds of women in their lifetime<\/p>\n<p>In a country where violence is often shrouded in silence, Tahina Booth is trying to break the cycle with something as simple as passing a ball.<\/p>\n<p>The former athlete runs programmes aimed at reducing harm to women in some of Papua New Guinea\u2019s most dangerous regions. Her story starts with pain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2025\/aug\/27\/reducing-violence-against-women-png-papua-new-guinea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the country leaders and advocates work to tackle the root causes of an \u2018epidemic\u2019 that affects two-thirds of women in their lifetimeIn a country where violence is often shrouded in silence, Tahina Booth is trying to break the cycle with somethin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4906,"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":[41,874,267,2410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-violence-against-women-and-girls"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73665","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\/4906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73666,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73665\/revisions\/73666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}