Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sophie Mangai, a tall, wiry 60-year-old grandmother and battle-scarred women's rights advocate, leads a protest through downtown ...

For the first time in 20 years, Papua New Guinea has no women at all in its 111-seat national parliament. While a record 167 women (5 per cent of the total 3340 candidates), including the three female ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WOMEN danced, wept and embraced outside the Papua New Guinea Parliament yesterday as years of campaigning culminated in a watershed ...

Women in PNG are raped, beaten and murdered by partners, fathers and brothers. Ume Wainetti, national co-ordinator of the PNG Family and Sexual Violence Action Committee, has had enough.

Police and missionaries in Papua New Guinea have saved four women accused of witchcraft. The women were accused of practising sorcery (or 'sanguma'), after a measles epidemic killed several people ...

A woman is beaten every 30 seconds in Papua New Guinea, and more than 1.5 million people experience gender-based violence in the country each year. On 3 September in Mt Hagen, one of the country ...

In a new Lowy Institute Analysis published today, Jo Chandler presents a devastating picture of the endemic violence against women in Papua New Guinea and the role Australia can play in supporting ...

In a country with high rates of gender-based violence and entrenched lack of opportunity for women, this was a powerful example of a grassroots change. Rugby league is not just the national sport in ...

Media organisations in Papua New Guinea have varying policies and practices in place to support equality in the workplace and reduce the barriers to women's career development. Improvements in the ...