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Due to widespread violence against women, the UN Women's Strategic Plan [20] has focused on PNG as a priority country. [21] UN Women are focusing on the existing gender-based violence in PNG, the role of women in political developments, inter-agency coordination mechanisms, women's economic empowerment and advancing the gender equality agenda. [21]
According to U.N. Women, 60% of Papua New Guinea’s women have experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner at some time in their lives, double the global average. Allegations of sorcery against women are common. Papua New Guinea ranked 151 out of 166 countries on the U.N. Development Program's gender inequality index in 2022.
As of 1 February 2019, Papua New Guinea was one of only three countries in the world out of 235 that had no women in its legislative branch or parliament. [2] In the 2017 national election, 165 women ran for parliament out of a total of 3,000 candidates, or five percent. No women were elected, including the three female incumbents. [3]
Community safety, defined as the percentage of women and girls older than 15 who were polled by Gallup World Poll and answered that they felt safe walking alone where they live. Political violence targeting women, measured as the number of political violence events against women per 100,000 women.
Organised crime is widespread throughout Papua New Guinea. Raskol gangs are not only involved in violence but play a significant role in non-violent or organised crime. Papua New Guinea acts as a large domestic market for high-quality marijuana, [10] as well as an international thoroughfare for numerous other illicit drugs.
The unification of Western New Guinea with Papua New Guinea was official Australian government policy for a short period of time in the 1960s, before Indonesia's annexation of the region. [44] Generally, proposals regarding federation with Papua New Guinea are a minority view in the freedom movement.
The United Nations reported that more than 200 killings take place every year in just one of Papua New Guinea’s 20 provinces alone. Kepari Leniata’s public execution was at least the third committed at the Warakum settlement’s trash dump between 2009 and 2013.
The politics of Papua New Guinea takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic multi-party system, whereby the prime minister is the head of government. Papua New Guinea is an independent Commonwealth realm , with the monarch serving as head of state and a governor-general , nominated by the National Parliament ...