John Momis - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 28 Oct 2013 06:54:46 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg John Momis - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Momis asks UN to apologise for flawed Gender Violence Report https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/10/29/momis-asks-un-apologise-flawed-gender-violence-report/ Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:30:09 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=51414

The validity of United nations report on Gender Violence has been called into question by the President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, John Momis. He says that since the Report has not yet been formally presented to the Government, he is not "prepared to go into a point by point rebuttal of the findings". Read more

Momis asks UN to apologise for flawed Gender Violence Report... Read more]]> The validity of United nations report on Gender Violence has been called into question by the President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, John Momis.

He says that since the Report has not yet been formally presented to the Government, he is not "prepared to go into a point by point rebuttal of the findings".

"But on the basis of what has surfaced, the UN sponsoring body should immediately withdraw the report and apologise to the people of Bougainville and by extension to the people of Papua New Guinea."

"The report cannot in any way be an accurate empirical study of certain social conditions in Bougainville and has served to engender stereotypical reporting that does not enhance the social indices of Bougainville," he said.

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Momis asks UN to apologise for flawed Gender Violence Report]]> 51414 John Momis says UN gender violence report is wrong https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/09/27/john-momis-says-un-gender-violence-report-wrong/ Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:06:44 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=50143 THE PRESIDENT OF Papua New Guinea's autonomous province of Bougainville, Dr John Momis, is calling on the United Nations to apologise and withdraw a survey on gender violence he says is flawed. The UN Gender Violence Survey was released last week and included assertions that some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the Read more

John Momis says UN gender violence report is wrong... Read more]]> THE PRESIDENT OF Papua New Guinea's autonomous province of Bougainville, Dr John Momis, is calling on the United Nations to apologise and withdraw a survey on gender violence he says is flawed.

The UN Gender Violence Survey was released last week and included assertions that some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the Asia/Pacific region occur in the province. Continue reading

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