PORT MORESBY: A SAFER CITY FOR WOMEN & GIRLS
From Magazine New Age Woman dated 13 June 2012
This report was written by an anonymous UN Women writer. This is one of the unsavoury organizations in the Pacific focused on violence of men, real or grossly false.
All problems are due to men preying on abused women. This report is flawed by a prejudice against men and a plan for lesbians to take control.
The track record of UN Women shows lesbians of the New World Order employed.
The Head of United Nations Women is a psychopathic lesbian who worked in AusAID and sought to set up a gay and lesbian infrastructure in the National HIV/AIDS campaign.
She led the fake market study in Port Moresby. Now she wants to push her way back in with fake studies for UN to give large amounts of funding.
UN Women is ANTI-FAMILY, ANTI-FAITH, ANTI-MEN and ANTI-MARRIAGE. The present study is quite manphobic.
UN Women would have played a leading covert role in 2011 in pushing for decriminalizing gay and lesbian sex by pressure on Dame Carol Kidu then Minister for Community Development.
The report below includes men and boys. Advice is that some boys suffer sexual violence in markets. The report is getting silly.
The writer must be referring to gay men and boys. A report was written on this market issue last year, Please click:
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21 Nov 2011 – It tells us that Gordons market in Port Moresby is a dangerous place
for women and girls. ... GENDER EQUITY IN THE HIGHLANDS - FAMILY POSITIVE
LIVING - AIDS ... Cox and the UN lesbians are getting the story wrong.
For the last three years, Port Moresby has been ranked as one of the five least livable cities in the world based on ranking scores in the five areas: stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
Violent crime in Port Moresby threatens the safety and security of all citizens, and particularly women and girls who live in fear of physical and verbal harassment and assault, and are too often victims of these and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV).
This is a gross exaggeration. All people know where and when not to go. The same rules apply to New York after dark.
Public spaces and recreational areas for social integration are limited, dangerous and unwelcoming. Due to the limited availability of public spaces, markets and informal trading places are not only used for buying and selling of goods, but also to socialize, meet friends, gamble and drink, among other activities.
Perhaps to a UN white woman.
The National Capital District Commission – NCDC manages the city markets. However, the markets in the Moresby are characterized by weak local government presence, authority, and capacity in market planning, development of by-laws, budgeting, management, and maintenance.
This is a city with a massive increase in population over the last 2 years. It is crowded, particularly the markets.
There is no clear understanding of who is responsible for maintaining public order and violence in many different forms.
Newcomers and expatriates to the city are warned about the city’s “no-go zones” and in this context are told to stay away from markets and other public spaces, which severely restricts cash flows into markets and informal sector hubs.
This is false. Expatriates do not go to the markets as they are prepared to pay the increased prices at supermarkets. Shopping in markets would be seen by some expatriates as "going native". No-go zones?
About 80 percent of the city of Port Moresby’s market vendors are women, and over half of them have to bring their children to the market. Women in PNG suffer disproportionately from poverty and experience major barriers to participation in their communities due to low levels of literacy and education, high incidence of domestic and other forms of GBV which severely hinder women’s ability to manage and sustain their daily economic activity, to supplement their family livelihoods.
This is false. Children come to markets with their mothers. Markets are safest places. To set up a market on a roadside is to face violence and theft from police and city ranger thugs armed with iron bars. What does low levels of literacy have to do with selling fruit and vegetables?
The goal of UN Women’s Safe Cities Project in Port Moresby is to pilot new approaches to reduce violence against women and girls in public spaces.
This is false. The markets are mainly peaceful places. The overriding emotion is boredom. Many women sit in village groups with a few men among them. UN Women did not notice that.
The lesbian Head may well be seeking to infiltrate PNG with fake projects and agenda within agenda for the New World Order.
The project will focus in markets as the key entry point for mobilizing women’s leadership and citizens’ rights and responsibilities to set and observe new norms and standards of mutual respect of human rights, especially the right of women and girls to live, work and go about their daily lives free from all forms of discrimination and violence.
A scoping study was commissioned by UN Women in 2011 to gather and document qualitative and quantitative data on GBV and other forms of violence taking place in six markets of Port Moresby.
The results revealed that while women and girls are at most risk and are the most common victims of all forms of violence in the markets and other public spaces, men and boys also suffer from high levels of violence including sexual violence.
This is gross exaggeration. Boys suffer sexual violence at markets?? There is limited violence in markets.
Fear and anxiety is prevalent amongst males and females of all ages, ethnic groups and socio-economic status.
Rubbish. There is safety in numbers at markets.
Most men and women do not have confidence and trust that they will be adequately protected by the police or private security guards in the markets.
In most markets, wrongdoers will often be dealt with by the men. Young drunk boys know they will be in trouble if they make trouble.
They also fear retaliation if they inform on or chastise wrongdoers and may be subjected to threats, abuse or further mistreatment.
Not true.
Ethnic conflict is common in and around the markets, and has at times led to violent deaths. One of the ethnic conflicts in 2011 resulted in the closure of one of the main markets in the city, the subsequent loss of incomes, as well as spill over and disruption of the other city markets. Females also suffer from extortion on a regular basis.
Generalizing on a single incident at Gordons market 18 months ago.
In the absence of guarantees that police or security guards in the markets can and will protect women, and with high levels of unruly and provocative behavior, women are under pressure to pay public nuisances and perpetrators of violence with their produce or cash for “protection” to avoid confrontation or violent incidents.
Police and security guards are often involved in different ways, both intentionally and inadvertently in the crime and violence committed against vendors and patrons at the markets.
The conditions under which most market vendors sell their goods poses severe health and security risks to both vendors and buyers.
Markets are cleaned and swept daily. Most rubbish is banana leaves, betel nut shells and pineapple and kaukau offal.
Unemployment combined with alcohol and substance abuse, are some of the main problems amongst male youth who have been identified as constant perpetrators of violence in the market places.
Exaggeration.
Men of all ages tend to inconsiderately occupy the seats and shelters for market vendors, using these spaces to consume and sell alcohol and drugs, gamble, menace women and girls and negotiate commercial or transactional sex.
This is totally false. Stalls are reserved month in month out. Most stalls are under cover. Men do not occupy seats of the vendors.
Some men are vendors. Some women and men come together to sell. It is part of the lesbian agenda to accuse men of abusing women.
Many women vendors are displaced from the market shelters or market premises and have to sit next to busy roads, open sewage or near the trash, where they sell their fruits and vegetables, and have their children play.
Total exaggeration. The problem is most markets are overcrowded with vendors not inconsiderate men. Which market is being referred to? Some vendors are banned for selling factory made goods. They set up outside the main gate to the market.
The results from the scoping study indicate that commercial sex trade and sexual exploitation, in particular of young females, is prevalent in all markets especially where gambling and drinking takes place and even the toilets are being used to have sex.
Exaggeration. Very little or no gambling and drinking takes place in markets. Drunks come from other places.
This shows UN Women have not been to Port Moresby markets if they make such a basic error. But reality is not essential when fighting men.
Women and girls enter the sex trade to afford school fees or to be able to buy food to survive.Transactional sex is also prevalent, where vulnerable women and girls exchange sex for cigarettes, betel nut, drugs, alcohol and even food.
How do UN women know that a man and girl are talking about transactional sex? Surely they are not suggesting there is sex within the market. This is fantasy based on what they think is going on. This will require hundreds of UN Women counselors in country.
Lack of routine maintenance and management to meet basic health and safety standards has rendered many spaces in the market places unsafe, in particular for women and girls. For example, criminal assault, including sexual assault has been reported in the overgrown areas and dark spaces.
Most markets in Port Moresby are cleaned daily. Fruit and vegetables are stored in bags overnight. Security guards watch at night.
There was slush and sewerage overflow at Boroko market in the monsoon rainy season. It was not in the market as this report indicates but on the road outside.Toilets can not cope with the population increase.
The NCDC has allocated funds to this project and has committed to restructuring its Markets Division to ensure markets of the city are safe, clean and maintained spaces, free from all forms of violence. New Zealand Aid and other donors are also supporting the Safe Cities project.
There are numerous achievements from the first year of implementation, including: 1) the mobilization and training of grassroots women and youth; 2) sensitization and training of the relevant Divisions in the areas of: gender, human rights, HIV preventions, working with men and boys to end violence against women, and community mobilisation; 3) the revision of market by-laws to ensure they are gender sensitive and incorporate issues of violence against women; 4) implementation of new and accountable mechanisms for the collection of fees at the markets; and 5) upgrading of infrastructure in the first pilot market.
In order to make Port Moresby city safer for women and girls, the Safe Cities project has been designed to have a holistic approach and address the underlying causes and drivers of violence and transforming the gender relations of power.
They are setting up a program that will have no effect. UN Women have no idea of grassroots solutions. They will claim success by saying the situation has improved. But it was not as bad as they said it was in the first place.
The project will contribute to women and girls (as well as men and boys) enjoying freedom of movement and the right to earn a livelihood, through decent work in public spaces based on mutual rights and respect.
As part of its commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment in PNG, NZAID in PNG recently allocated NZ$500,000 to support UN Women in this innovative and strategic intervention.
The funds are allocated under the framework of the UN Delivering as One in PNG and will support UN Women and the Gender Task Team.
The funding is critical for the UN to support the efforts of the NCDC to address the critical issues faced by women and girls in the markets of Port Moresby with aims of making the markets safer and support economic livelihoods of many in Port Moresby where the market is their only source of income.
Let us consider the sensitivity changes that UN Women might recommend for markets. There should be a room for breast feeding mothers, a coffee room for market lesbians to meet, market staff to look out for violence against gay boys and a police station in every market with a cell for violent men and boys.
There should be a statement of rights for women and girls on a large notice board, testing facilities for HIV infection, security guards to escort expatriate women around the market and guards warned to be vigilant against non-existent drinking and gambling.
What about selling fruit and vegetables? Don't worry about that.
AIDS Holistics will keep the community informed. Any further report will have this present report as a linkage.
There is never a response from the lesbians. They know better than to do that when they have something to hide.
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