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Tackling domestic violence in Indonesia’s Papua Province

december 13, 2013by 0

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JAYAPURA, 13 December 2013 (IRIN) – Indonesian Papua is taking steps to combat violence against women and children as concerns grow about the level of domestic abuse. According the National Commission on Violence against Women, Papua Province recorded 1,360 cases of gender-based violence per 10,000 women in 2012. “Many people still resort to violence to solve problems. Even parents and teachers believe that if corporal punishment is not used, children won’t have discipline,” Dwi Utari, a senior programme assistant in charge of child and mother protection at the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Papua, told IRIN. UNICEF points out that in 2011, in a survey conducted in…

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