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Statistically more vulnerable in PNG
Interviews conducted by the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in 2003 indicated criminal groups used the conflict to justify rape. A nun told UNIFEM that life for women during the conflict was like living “between two guns”. In the years following the conflict, women continued to feel threatened by weapons still in circulation, according to one local development agency cited by UNIFEM. But even outside this bloody theatre of war, and years later, the situation remains grim for women. The problem is bad. We pretend that it is not there, Ume Wainetti, head of the Family and Sexual Action Committee, a government programme set up to address gender violence, told IRIN in March 2012.
China has dismissed Australian concerns about a planned new industrial fish facility on Papua New Guinea s Daru Island, while locals are seeking some answers.
China s Fujian Zhonghong Fishery Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with PNG s government to build a US$154 million fishery industrial park off Daru.
Photo: Map: Google Earth
The proposed industrial fishing development, only a few kilometres off PNG s southern border, has garnered the keen attention of Australian media.
With Daru merely 200 kilometres from Australia s mainland, and even closer to the Torres Strait islands, Canberra is nervous about the possibility of China establishing a port there.