- Author
- Human Rights Watch
- Title
- Making Their Own Rules: Police Beatings, Rape, and Torture of Children in Papua New Guinea
- Imprint
- Human Rights Watch, © September 2005, 121 pp
- Description
Reproduced with the kind permission of Human Rights Watch.
- Abstract
"Police actions can have significant impact on the spread of HIV/AIDS. Human Rights Watch research in several countries has shown that police abuse of children and members of marginalized groups such as sex workers and men and boys who engage in homosexual conduct, poor law enforcement for rape and other crimes of sexual violence, and police harassment of individuals carrying condoms undermines individuals’ capacity to protect themselves and others from HIV." The focus of this report is on Papua New Guinea.