AUSAID AND FSVAC WORK TOGETHER

Post Courier 21 June 2011

Village court officials and trauma counsellors need urgent and specific training and recognising sex education in schools were among several very vital issues discussed by the Family Sexual Violence Action Committee (FSVAC) and AusAID in Port Moresby last week.

A new approach to gender based violence is the introduction of male advocates or champions introduced into all provinces but needs to be re-drawn. In Kokopo, this group is called the style mangis. In other centres, they are known as men against violence.

Comment:

If reduction in gender violence is to be achieved in the long term, the only effective strategy is to tell the men. The overseas women's groups want to
tell only the women so as to promote violent confrontation between men and women.