A Papua New Guinea Special Parliamentary Committee has heard that laws could be considered that make sorcery accusations illegal.
East Sepik Governor Allan Bird listens to Senior Magistrate Tracy Ganai at a Papua New Guinea Special Parliamentary Committee into Gender-based Violence.
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The nagging problem of sorcery accusation-related violence in PNG has featured in a seminal two-day public hearing on gender-based violence in the country.
The committee has been told of a widespread perception that the spate of violence toward females usually happens without consequences for perpetrators.
Many violent attacks within grassroots communities are based on claims that sorcery has been used by a person, usually, to harm another person.