Marshall Is report shows alarming level of incest and teenage suicide

• Print
• Email

Updated March 17, 2009 15:59:26

Alarming statistics uncovered in a survey of high school students in Marshall Islands revealed that one in five students has been raped by a relative. The Ministry of Health on Ebeye conducted the survey of about three hundred high school students for the U-S Compact of Free Association quarterly report.


Presenter Geraldine Coutts

Speaker: Editor of the Marshall Islands Journal Giff Johnson

• Listen:
• Windows Media

• Aboriginal artifacts in Tasmania may stop road
• Concerns over land reform policies in Melanesia
• Vanuatu economy to recover says IMF
• What about the Pacific if Australi and New Zealand merge?
• Parents using children to beg on PNG streets
• New Caledonia asking for emergency funding from France to help Wallis
• Solomon Islands school students learn truth and reconciliation lesson
• Vanuatu has high hopes for new Kava based Lava Kola