Sexual violence

John Mondiai, of Kerowagi in Simbu Province, was at the Nine-Mile Bridge in Morobe Province, on Friday, December 17th, 2021, between 12pm and 1pm, when he saw the 14-year-old walking across a field to her house.

He allegedly covered her mouth with his hands before dragging her to his brother’s house, where he sexually assaulted her.

He threatened to kill the girl if she ever told her parents so she did not say anything.

On January 28th, 2022, Mondiai’s wife acted on information received and told the girl’s parents.

In a country like PNG, it threatens or is a social hindrance to the development.

And with the power of the media, service providers such as the Family and Sexual Violence Action Committee under CIMC aim to address it.

A small group consisting of journalists in the media fraternity and partners and stakeholders in the area of GBV/FSV met on Thursday in a collaborative move towards this.

The media sensitisation workshop was to equip media personnel (journalists), with knowledge on;

Lucia Perez, 16, died earlier this month in the city of Mar del Plata.

Two men who dropped her off at a hospital on 8 October, freshly washed and dressed, said she had overdosed on drugs. But doctors found evidence of extreme sexual violence.

A march will begin at 17:00 local time (20:00 GMT) in the capital, Buenos Aires.

Activist groups are calling on women to wear black when they walk out of their places of work for an hour at midday on Wednesday (14:00 GMT). They are calling the actions Miercoles Negro - Spanish for Black Wednesday.