Like other women interviewed, she asked to be identified only by her first name for privacy and out of fear of her husband. A dirt road near the Goroka airport leads to a squatter settlement down ...

But as NPR fellow Durrie Bouscaren reports, one group of women in the town of Goroka found that their new-found income triggered a disturbing reaction - physical abuse from their husbands.

It's estimated that hundreds more villagers in the Goroka District face the same predicament. Two Port Moresby-based women, Dorothy Jolly and Lisa Ijape, have been creating a database of people ...

Women and girls I interviewed said the police ... who was being held in a home on suspicion of practicing sorcery. The police in Goroka refused to investigate her death, claiming they had received ...

Women are the victims in the majority of incidents ... by the husband’s relatives and tortured with hot iron rods in Goroka, capital of the Eastern Highlands province, at the end of March.

Throughout her career, Superintendent Suto has confronted skepticism regarding women's capacity to fulfill the demanding ...

But malaria is on the move. A woman sleeps with her baby in the maternity ward of a hospital in Goroka in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea in 2009. Jason South / Fairfax Media ...

These women don’t represent PNG ... arrested by the country’s overwhelmed police forces. Joseph Kayan, a Goroka Show participant from Chimbu Province, wears boar tusks and the tail of a ...

Ambai, who is being identified by a nickname out of concern for her safety, is one of the dozens of women waiting in a quiet and packed unmarked shelter on the edge of Goroka, a town in Eastern ...