ANOTHER TRICKY REPORT ON VIOLENCE,

AIDS Holistics has to take issue with the report below from Radio Australia that has been written by an anonymous scribe using data purportedly come from Medecins Sans Frontieres.

 

The basis of the report is that there are poor health records taken on violence. But most detailed statistics are used on the report below on violence towards women.

 

If Medecins Sans Frontieres is not a lesbian activist front, then the writer certainly is.

 

Focus is on violence of men to women. The statistics makes the rubbish claim the 60% of men in PNG have been involved in gang rape at least once!!

 

Does that involve loving fathers? clergymen? parliamentarians? That is gender defamation.

 

Did they get this data from the incomplete statistics? Or was that figure made up by the lesbians over coffee?

 

We have written on this before as appeared in the Post Courier.

The claim is made that women are 6 times more likely to be accused of sorcery.

What proof do they have to this? The UN lesbians are trying to push that sorcery killings is a gender issue. Sorcerers are both men and women. This varies according to the clan area.

 

There is no focus on the violence of women to men and children. There must be an increase in violence across the highlands as women and girls drink homebrew and smoke marijuana.

 

There is a high level of lesbian activity in health organizations in Australia. Is Medicins Sans Frontieres a gay, lesbian and paedophile organization?

Should we start to call the organization Lesbians Sans Frontieres (Lesbians without frontiers)?

There is some truth of the problems of women in the report below. But it is spoilt by shady and false statistics. How does LSF obtain such figures when data reporting is poor?

AUSTRALIA NETWORK NEWS taken from the Jackson blog PNG Attitude

MEDICAL HUMANITARIAN AGENCY Medecins Sans Frontieres has called for better record-keeping on domestic and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea, where research shows extremely high levels of abuse.

Medecins Sans Frontieres says specific data-keeping will help address the problem in PNG, which has one of the highest rates of violence against women in the Pacific.

It says about two-thirds of women have been abused by their partners.

It also says 60% of PNG men have reported participating in lainap (gang rape) at least once.

PNG domestic abuse figures from Medecins Sans Frontieres show that:

70% of women experience domestic violence
67% of wives have been beaten by their husbands
60% of men reported participating in gang rape at least once
55% of women had been forced into sex against their will

Women are 6 times more likely to be accused of sorcery than men.

MSF project coordinator and midwife, Ruth Kaufman, told Radio Australia abused women in PNG often don't know the best ways to seek help.

They'll try to go through the criminal justice system, they'll try to get help in a health centre and yes, the injuries may be taken care of but the broader aspects of the psychological care, the social care and the legal support for them and their children is difficult to obtain."

Ms Kaufman says the World Health Organisation has done similar studies into domestic in Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Kiribati, with similar levels of abuse.

Poor organisation of medical records in PNG may contribute to the lack of awareness about the problem, Ms Kaufman says.

In PNG they keep good records of medical care, but they include any kind of violence-related injuries as one topic also included under accidents."

"In the data you would see someone who was injured from a car accident, someone injured from tribal violence and then someone injured from sexual violence all coming under the same category."

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