The Prime Minister, James Marape, will have a high-level Parliamentary event on Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (GEWE) at the Parliament State Function Room in Port Moresby city today. The event will bring together Members of Parliament, government agencies, civil society leaders and international development partners to discuss legislation reforms, institutional commitments and practical measures to combat GBV in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Today at Parliament, women groups from all over the Nation's Capital, showed up in numbers to attend this event and hear first-hand from the Prime Minister on how the government is working to address this very important issue in the country. Amongst these groups present at the National Parliament this morning is the North-West District Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) group who came in numbers on the invitation of the Governor for NCD to represent the churches at today's event. North-West District Pastor Gaza Asitore of the Central Papua Conference of SDA, said it is a great privilege to attend this event that has been the talk of the country recently. Pastor Asitore said this issue is happening everywhere in the country and it is good that they are attending to listen so they may go out and educate others in the community on how to address this issue or provide assistance to those that are victims of this issue. Today's event, which will take place around lunch time, includes presentation by NCD Governor Powes Parkop, presentation from stakeholders and an address from PM Marape reaffirming the government's commitment to legislative reforms, enhanced protection for women and strike workplace policies against GBV.