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Latest items for Papua New Guinea

Feb. 2, 2024, 6:33 a.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: DV-DATA-1

According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in Papa New Guinea who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 51 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Angola, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Laos, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Senegal, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:19 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: ERBG-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:06 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:03 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Botswana, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia
Variables: DACH-SCALE-1

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Jan. 21, 2024, 11:10 a.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: MMR-DATA-1

According to a 2023 report on global trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020 published by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and UNDESA/Population Division, in 2020 the maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) in Papua New Guinea was 192 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 20, 2024, 1:37 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2

According to 2023 World Bank Gender Data collected from the most recent ILO modeled estimates from 2020 onwards, the female laborforce participation rate (as a percentage of the female population ages 15+) in Papua New Guinea is 46.4% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 7, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to the World Bank, as of 2021, life expectancy in Papua New Guinea is 68 years for women and 63 years for men (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 28, 2023, 2:18 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to 2019 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, average life expectancy in Papua New Guinea is 63.4 years for men and 67.4 years for women (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 13, 2023, 11:47 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5

"Laws criminalizing sex work are rarely enforced through prosecutions before a court of law. However, according to sex workers and sex worker advocates that we spoke with, police officers use these criminal laws to abuse their authority by arbitrarily detaining people or using the threat of prosecution to extort money and sexual services from sex workers" (para 6). "The police also use the criminalization of sex workers to justify subjecting them to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, in some cases amounting to torture. This includes rape and sexual abuse while in custody. We heard reports of sex workers being forced to chew and swallow condoms" (para 7).more
Dec. 13, 2023, 11:47 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-4

"The law turns a blind eye to these police abuses – but at the same time fails to ensure justice or protection for sex workers. The illegal nature of sex work makes it difficult for sex workers to report crimes committed against them and to seek equal protection under the law. One woman said that she reported abuse by a client to the police, only to be told that they did not want to 'waste time' on her" (para 10). Without proper systems for reporting abuses, there must also be few to no resources that would help women escape prostitution (MCP - CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 13, 2023, 11:47 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-3

"An isolated case? Far from it. As Amnesty International details in its report, sex workers are amongst some of the most marginalized and vulnerable citizens in this Pacific island nation experiencing high levels of sexual and gender-based violence, and gender inequality" (para 3). "Such failures in justice, combined with a toxic mix of widespread stigma and discrimination against sex workers, is creating an environment in which others in society feel able to commit crimes against them with impunity. We received several consistent reports of two sex workers who had recently been killed by clients. One was murdered outside Mt Hagen police station in 2013. Another was raped and killed in...more
Dec. 13, 2023, 11:47 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Our research highlights that a key factor fueling this situation is the criminalization of sex work. Laws that make it illegal to live off the earnings of sex work and to organize commercial sex mean that police, amongst others, can abuse sex workers with impunity" (para 5).
Dec. 13, 2023, 11:46 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5

"At the station the men were all released without charge while all 40 of the women were thrown into the cells on charges of 'living off the earnings of prostitution'" (para 41). Here we see differential enforcement practices, with the prostitutes taking the brunt of the punishments (MCP - CODER COMMENT). "Some of these women alleged they were raped repeatedly by drunken police in uniform during the next three days before community workers managed to raise bail of about K2000 (A$950) and secure their release" (para 42). "All the charges were later dropped due to lack of evidence that the women had actually been performing paid sex" (para 43).more
Dec. 13, 2023, 11:46 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-4

"A USAID 2010 survey on this sector of the PNG community revealed that although many hide their sex work from their families and the community, more than a third reported being shunned by their loved ones, and the same proportion were denied medical treatment when a nurse or doctor learned what they did for a living" (para 11). If while being prostitutes women are denied even medical tratment, there must be no institutionalized support systems for them due to prostitution being highly stigmatized (MCP - CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 13, 2023, 11:46 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-3

"It has left many of the countless numbers involved as paraiahs in their own society, vulnerable to abuse, violence and rampant diseases such as HIV infections" (para 9). A high rate of HIV infections can be an indicator that prostitutes have little to no bargaining power in how their interactions with clients are conducted (MCP - CODER COMMENT). "The same survey showed almost 80 per cent of sex workers had been sexually abused in the previous year, 70 per cent had been raped in the few months leading up to the survey and about half had been raped multiple times in that period" (para 12). "While the rate of HIV/AIDS...more
Dec. 13, 2023, 11:46 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Prostitution, brothels and homosexuality are all illegal in PNG, and women and men who choose to sell sex do so at their own risk and outside the health, security and other controls that regulate sex industries in other countries" (para 7).
Dec. 13, 2023, 11:46 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-DATA-1

"While the exact number of sex workers in PNG is not known, the United Nations has estimated that as many as two in three girls aged between 15 and 24 in Papua New Guinea have exchanged sex for money, food, shelter - or even payment school fees" (para 5).
Nov. 8, 2023, 2:41 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Selling sex indoors is illegal, there is a criminal offence for keeping any indoor premises of any kind for 'purposes of prostitution'. Soliciting in public not specifically criminalised. There are laws against living on the earnings of 'prostitution' that apply to sex workers themselves and their own earnings so effectively all sex work is criminalised" (para. 1). "Is buying sex criminalised? No" (para. 2). "Is organising/managing criminalised? Yes, brothel-keeping and living on the earnings criminalised" (para. 3). "
Nov. 8, 2023, 2:41 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-LAW-4

"Is there mandatory registration? No" (para. 5). "Is sex work recognised as work? No" (para. 6). "Is sex work decriminalised with limited regulation? No" (para. 7)
Nov. 8, 2023, 2:41 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-LAW-6

"Is there mandatory HIV/STI testing? No" (para. 4).
Oct. 12, 2023, 3:59 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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Sept. 29, 2023, 9:40 a.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"24.6 births per 1000 population"
Sept. 8, 2023, 12:38 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"Women who were first married by age 18 (% of women ages 20-24) is '27.3%.'"
June 17, 2023, 5:11 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Cameroon, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kosovo, Latvia, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad/Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: MARR-SCALE-2

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June 14, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: MARR-LAW-7

"The marriage of a man is prohibited if the woman is, or has been, his– Ancestress Wife’s mother Descendant Wife’s grandmother Sister Wife’s daughter Father’s sister Wife’s son’s daughter Mother’s sister Wife’s daughter’s daughter Brother’s daughter Father’s wife Sister’s daughter Grandfather’s wife Son’s wife Son’s son’s wife Daughter’s son’s wife. The marriage of a woman is prohibited if the man is, or has been, her– Ancestor Husband’s father Descendant Husband’s grandfather Brother Husband’s son Father’s brother Husband’s son’s son Mother’s brother Husband’s daughter’s son Brother’s son Mother’s husband Sister’s son Grandmother’s husband Daughter’s husband Son’s daughter’s husband Daughter’s daughter’s husband."
June 1, 2023, 2:13 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8

Papua New Guinea has more than 1,000 different ethnic groups, with the indigenous people being Melanesians. They are usually classified by language group, with Papuans representing the descendants of the original Australoid migration and Austronesian speakers descended from later migrants. Other groups with significant populations include Negritos, Micronesians, and Polynesians. Papua New Guinea is one of the most heterogeneous nations in the world, so it is difficult to say whether it is common for cousins to marry given the wide variety of social practices varying by ethnic group. However, The island was colonized by several European powers, including the Dutch, Germans, and British. In 1945, Australia combined its administration of...more
April 4, 2023, 1:11 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IAW-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business and the Law" database (2022), female and male surviving spouses have equal rights to inherit assets. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Wills, Probate and Administration Act, Sec. 84.
April 4, 2023, 1:11 p.m.
Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IAD-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business and the Law" database (2022), sons and daughters have equal rights to inherit assets from their parents. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Wills, Probate and Administration Act, Sec. 84 .