Category - Gender

Pacific and PNG

Cervical cancer prevention and treatment in PNG

On International Women’s Day 2024, we bring you an edited extract from Dr Pamela Toliman’s contribution to the 2024 Ruth Bishop Address, presented annually by the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security within the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. I want to start by saying...

Pacific and PNG

Polygamy is spreading in PNG

In Papua New Guinea, the proliferation of social problems related to polygamous marriages has led to one social justice advocate calling polygamy a “social evil”. It certainly leads to some serious problems. 65% of PNG’s female prisoners are convicted of a crime related to polygamous...