It has been a most useful visit of Rashida Manjoo to Papua New Guinea. Her comments below set out the scene quite clearly. There is violence towards women and girls at the hands of men. But this UN person makes a number of generalizations that need to be commented on.
So the United Nations has declared war on the patriarchal society of Papua New Guinea. Perhaps the UN could tell us where in the world such a war has been won by the United Nations. Every developing country in the world has a patriarchal societal foundation.
AIDS Holistics faces this focus of the United Nations with some scepticism. The UN appears to have restrategized from a gay and lesbian hate man agenda. They now want to declare war on patriarchy by declaring war on men.
The war is being waged in the classrooms daily with the Personal Development program run by thousands of male and female teachers. It has been in operation for over 3 years and will take another ten to twenty years to bear fruit. We have to be patient but do our best to protect women and girls at the same time.
Ms Manjoo did not mention family once in her media releases. So nothing has changed. The gay and lesbian agenda is still the focus of the United Nations program. The war against patriarchy will be the excuse for bringing in a horde of UN lesbian activists.
The United Nations is overstating the violence in the country. This country has been under the influence of colonial powers for over 80 years. There was a time when no man, woman or child ventured past their tribal boundaries.
Any woman or girl would be kidnapped for wives. Men and boys would be killed. Tribal wars continue but people are now able to travel through enemy territory on the national roads.
There used to be a village understanding that women, girls and boys are not to be killed in tribal war. But that has slowly declined for several reasons. The village structure is breaking down.
Young boys are taking part in violent acts armed with weapons. So the new approach is becoming that if they want to fight like men, they can die like men.
The place of women is changing in the nation. We have written about young girls becoming actively involved in prostitution with the aid of their mobile phones. Highlands men are booking young girls early and giving them enough money to bind their loyalty.
Young boys and girls are starting to ignore their clan background. More and more young girls are reaching maturity and heading for the city. They obtain money but never help their urban extended family members. It means that they are out of the protection of the wantok system.
Many girls do not go on to senior grades at school as the parents are afraid for their safety particularly in the upper grades of primary schools that have no girls' dormitory.
Families are becoming afraid of violence. We occasionally read of a young marijuana addicted boy killing his father or brother. Many people are afraid to intervene in domestic violence of a family member. They could be killed. It is all about marijuana addiction.
So the United Nations is wide of the mark if they allow their lesbians to go off into the country to teach women and girls about their rights. It is really about teaching women and girls that they can marry women. That is the ultimate agenda. The ultimate protection for women and girls is a loving family.
They are getting ready to tell the world that the United Nations has sailed in like the cavalry to save the silly blackfellas. What of the Personal Development program of schools that goes from Grade 6 to Grade 12? Are they going to try to foist a gay and lesbian agenda on thousands of Personal Development teachers? Please click:
WEEKLY TEST FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
A new generation of married couples is graduating from high school. Ms Manjoo undoubtedly has a sincere interest but she is stating the obvious and reinventing the wheel. Let us see how the new married generation applies what they learned at school.
WEEKLY TEST FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
A new generation of married couples is graduating from high school. Ms Manjoo undoubtedly has a sincere interest but she is stating the obvious and reinventing the wheel. Let us see how the new married generation applies what they learned at school.
Remember the United Nations view:
100% of PNG men are violent (false) 100% of PNG women are kind and abused (false) 100% of gay and lesbian marriages are beautiful (false) 100% of children of gays and lesbians are happy and well adjusted (false)
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FROM PNG ATTITUDE
The recent visit to Papua New Guinea of Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on the causes and consequences of violence against women, has resulted in a timely focus on this blight. It’s an issue we’ve featured prominently in PNG Attitude this week. Overnight, the Russian newspaper Pravda has published this story…..
WELCOME TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Gold Medal Chauvinist Pigs Award for the men, where women's rights have been relegated to the dustbin, where women are relegated to the dregs of society.
However, the world is aware and war has been declared against Patriarchal society of Papua New Guinea as the United Nations Organisation calls for more to be done.
For thousands of years, society in PNG has been patriarchal and men have been able to beat, punch, punish or kick, scald and insult women with virtual impunity.
Women appear at the few support centres that exist having been hacked with machetes, with open skull fractures after being bludgeoned with stones... after being kicked in the belly with a heavy boot while heavily pregnant.
Gang rapes, knife attacks and beatings of women are commonplace. However, new laws are in place and the UNO is watching as war is declared on violence against women in this forgotten bastion of humankind.
So endemic is the violence that an aid worker working with MSF said "Because it's so widespread, women think this violence is normal.
They have developed a mentality where they say, 'It's OK to beat me up with a stick but don't chop me up' and this mentality is really stuck in their head". She added "Making them understand that beating with a stick is not OK, they don't deserve it - even that is quite hard. Deep down, it boils down to where society places women here."
According to CARE International and Save the Children, 22% of women aged 15 to 30 had experienced forced sex in 2009 in Bougainville, while in Eastern Highlands, the figure was 15% for the same age group. Please click. AH.
LIES, BLOODY LIES AND LESBIAN STATISTICS
[Save the Children reports they encourage young children to use condoms. At one stage they complained that the health centres would not give children condoms because they were too young. So we could say Save the Children encourages young children to go out looking for sex. AH ]
LIES, BLOODY LIES AND LESBIAN STATISTICS
[Save the Children reports they encourage young children to use condoms. At one stage they complained that the health centres would not give children condoms because they were too young. So we could say Save the Children encourages young children to go out looking for sex. AH ]
In the Southern Highlands, the local centre receives 65 new cases of domestic violence and between ten and twenty cases of sexual violence each and every month.
Ume Wainetti, national program director of PNG’s Family Sexual Violence Action Committee says: "We also make excuses for why men should behave the way they behave, trying to say things like, 'he's a man and he can do these things'."
"I think our biggest problem is as women we still have not taken a stance and said 'No, I'm not going to accept this. I'm going to make sure that my son is not going to be like that.' But no, we're teaching our sons to be like that," she said.
The country's age-old patriarchal system may explain in part the attitude of men towards women, leading some of them to believe they can prove themselves through violence and go without punishment.
Tribal violence is also part of the problem - this small country is home to around 800 languages. Coupled with this, frustration engendered through endemic poverty - over a third of the population of 7 million people live below the poverty line - and this, fuelled by alcohol, lends a hand.
Polygamy is another issue involved, for neglect of the first wife and her children can often spiral into rejection and violence as a new wife is favoured.
Gender inequality is rife in terms of school enrolment, access to healthcare and to employment. Secondary school enrolment rates for girls are 50% those of boys.
There is one woman in the Parliament of 109 members. A proposal last November to increase the number of female seats to 22 did not get enough votes to pass as law.
On the UN Gender Inequality Index, Papua New Guinea is near the foot of the table, just above Afghanistan, Yemen, Chad, Mali, DR Congo and Niger.
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