More comparative examples...same issue different ocean :(

This is hard to read.....but worthwhile at some point as it focuses on "Sexual violence against women and girls on Islands"...albeit Pacific ones - its useful to see the sad similarities [if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_29" o:spid="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fcb/1/16/1f641.png" style='width:12pt;height:12pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\ANDREA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.png" o:title="1f641"></v:imagedata> </v:shape><![endif][if !vml][endif]:( However, im no further in finding out WHY this happens. [if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_30" o:spid="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fcb/1/16/1f641.png" style='width:12pt;height:12pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\ANDREA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.png" o:title="1f641"></v:imagedata> </v:shape><![endif][if !vml][endif]:(

"a clash of cultures and a lack of education can be manipulated in political and economic rivalry, and that aspects of traditional cultures that discriminate against and harm women are now being generalized, distorted and manipulated so that women are too often the scapegoat for men’s problems and the victims of men’s power struggles"

https://www.unicef.org/pacificislands/evaw.pdf