Countries: Bangladesh, Chad, Gambia, India, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Mali, Mauritania, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Togo
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-6

14.0

Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Is selling sex criminalised? Selling sex indoors is illegal, there is a criminal offence for keeping any indoor premises of any kind for 'purposes of prostitution'. Soliciting in public not specifically criminalised. There are laws against living on the earnings of 'prostitution' that apply to sex workers themselves and their own earnings so effectively all sex work is criminalised" (para 1). "Is buying sex criminalised? No" (para 2). "Is organising/managing criminalised? Yes, brothel-keeping and living on the earnings criminalised" (para 3).

Countries: Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Chad, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, Libya, Nicaragua, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Yemen
Variables: TRAFF-SCALE-1

4.0

Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: DV-DATA-1

According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in Papa New Guinea who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 51 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1

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Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-2

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Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: MMR-DATA-1

According to a 2023 report on global trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020 published by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and UNDESA/Population Division, in 2020 the maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) in Papua New Guinea was 192 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to the World Bank, as of 2021, life expectancy in Papua New Guinea is 68 years for women and 63 years for men (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5

"Laws criminalizing sex work are rarely enforced through prosecutions before a court of law. However, according to sex workers and sex worker advocates that we spoke with, police officers use these criminal laws to abuse their authority by arbitrarily detaining people or using the threat of prosecution to extort money and sexual services from sex workers" (para 6). "The police also use the criminalization of sex workers to justify subjecting them to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, in some cases amounting to torture. This includes rape and sexual abuse while in custody. We heard reports of sex workers being forced to chew and swallow condoms" (para 7).more

Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-3

"An isolated case? Far from it. As Amnesty International details in its report, sex workers are amongst some of the most marginalized and vulnerable citizens in this Pacific island nation experiencing high levels of sexual and gender-based violence, and gender inequality" (para 3). "Such failures in justice, combined with a toxic mix of widespread stigma and discrimination against sex workers, is creating an environment in which others in society feel able to commit crimes against them with impunity. We received several consistent reports of two sex workers who had recently been killed by clients. One was murdered outside Mt Hagen police station in 2013. Another was raped and killed in...more

Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Prostitution, brothels and homosexuality are all illegal in PNG, and women and men who choose to sell sex do so at their own risk and outside the health, security and other controls that regulate sex industries in other countries" (para 7).

Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-3

"It has left many of the countless numbers involved as paraiahs in their own society, vulnerable to abuse, violence and rampant diseases such as HIV infections" (para 9). A high rate of HIV infections can be an indicator that prostitutes have little to no bargaining power in how their interactions with clients are conducted (MCP - CODER COMMENT). "The same survey showed almost 80 per cent of sex workers had been sexually abused in the previous year, 70 per cent had been raped in the few months leading up to the survey and about half had been raped multiple times in that period" (para 12). "While the rate of HIV/AIDS...more

Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5

"At the station the men were all released without charge while all 40 of the women were thrown into the cells on charges of 'living off the earnings of prostitution'" (para 41). Here we see differential enforcement practices, with the prostitutes taking the brunt of the punishments (MCP - CODER COMMENT). "Some of these women alleged they were raped repeatedly by drunken police in uniform during the next three days before community workers managed to raise bail of about K2000 (A$950) and secure their release" (para 42). "All the charges were later dropped due to lack of evidence that the women had actually been performing paid sex" (para 43).more

Countries: Papua New Guinea
Variables: IRP-LAW-4

"Is there mandatory registration? No" (para. 5). "Is sex work recognised as work? No" (para. 6). "Is sex work decriminalised with limited regulation? No" (para. 7)

Countries: Algeria, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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