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November 2, 2010

Call for Women’s Rights in Papua New Guinea Getting Louder than Ever

By Erica George, Pacific Scoop, New Zealand - Two women from Papua New Guinea flew half way around the world this year to attend a United Nations assembly in New York – to demand their government take responsibility for the ongoing violence faced by women. But with the country’s sole woman parliamentarian set to retire by 2012, many fear the situation will get worse.

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