Domestic Violence

  • Photo of CARICOM Stakeholders Discuss Collaborative Approach to Transform Region’s Education Sector

    CARICOM Stakeholders Discuss Collaborative Approach to Transform Region’s Education Sector

    CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – Monday, 21 October 2024:      “When we look at transforming education in the Region, we do so against the backdrop of shaping one prosperous common future for all.”  These sentiments were shared by Mr Elvis Morain, Chair of the Meeting of Officials ahead of the 48th Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development…

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  • Photo of MEDIA ADVISORY:  Regional Symposium on ‘Violence as a Public Health Issue – The Crime Challenge’

    MEDIA ADVISORY: Regional Symposium on ‘Violence as a Public Health Issue – The Crime Challenge’

    A Regional Symposium on “Violence as a Public Health Issue – The Crime Challenge” will be held at the Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on the 17-18 April, 2023. The Symposium will be hosted by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr the Hon. Keith Rowley and will be attended by CARICOM Heads of Government. Representatives…

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  • Photo of Crime and Security – a regional problem…  CARICOM SG tells Caribbean Youth Violence Prevention Summit

    Crime and Security – a regional problem…  CARICOM SG tells Caribbean Youth Violence Prevention Summit

    Caribbean Community, (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin La Rocque, called for the full cooperation of all stakeholders within Member States to respond to the issue of crime and security, which he described as a regional problem that demands a regional solution. “The multi-state, multi sectoral response to this challenge is vital for us to succeed in defeating it” [crime], the Secretary-General said.…

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  • Photo of Secretary-General highlights Region’s work against Gender-based Violence

    Secretary-General highlights Region’s work against Gender-based Violence

    As the Region joins the global observance of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, progress has been identified in the important area of data collection on discrimination and violence against women and children and the analysis of underlying causes. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque noted the development in a message to mark the occasion. “I am happy to report…

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  • Photo of SCLAN pledges its support for hurricane ravaged countries

    SCLAN pledges its support for hurricane ravaged countries

                                    SCLAN pledges its support for hurricane ravaged countries (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Chair of the  Spouses of the Caribbean Leaders Action Network (SCLAN), H.E. Kim Simplis Barrow, Spouse of the Prime Minister of Belize and Special Envoy for Women and Children in Belize…

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  • Photo of CariWaC ADVANCES –  First Ladies/Spouses Network formally launched

    CariWaC ADVANCES –  First Ladies/Spouses Network formally launched

    First Ladies and Spouses of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) launched  its network,” Spouses of Caribbean Leaders Action Network (SCLAN)” to tackle issues related to the health and wellbeing  of women, adolescents and children in the Caribbean. SCLAN is the advocacy and action platform to advance the Every Caribbean Women Every Caribbean Child (ECWECC) initiative, now re-titled…

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  • Photo of Twelfth  CARICOM Triennial Woman Awardee calls for support to reduce the scourge of violence against women and girls

    Twelfth CARICOM Triennial Woman Awardee calls for support to reduce the scourge of violence against women and girls

    Twelfth  CARICOM Triennial Woman Awardee calls for support to reduce the scourge of violence against women and girls   Ms. Shirley Pryce received the Twelfth CARICOM Triennial Award for Women during the Official Opening of the 38th Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community on 4 July 2017, in St. George’s Grenada. In her acceptance speech, she called…

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  • Photo of We must rally around the Every Caribbean Woman Every Caribbean Child Initiative – UNSE

    We must rally around the Every Caribbean Woman Every Caribbean Child Initiative – UNSE

    This is the  charge from the United Nations Secretary-General Special Envoy(UNSE)  for HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean, Dr. Edward Greene, in his message on the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2017, being observed on 8 March 2017.   Titled Let us together do what it takes to #be bold for Change, the UNSE also called  for the “…support…

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  • Photo of Caribbean female voices say there are greater roles for first ladies

    Caribbean female voices say there are greater roles for first ladies

      Several women of prominence are calling for the Caribbean’s first ladies and the spouses of heads of government to be allowed more prominent roles in the development of their countries and the advancement of various causes. The call comes on the heels of the establishment of a Caribbean First Ladies/Spouses Network (CARIFLAN) to champion the ‘Every Caribbean Woman Every…

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  • Violence, cruelty, inequity and injustice …  not our destiny says Triennial Awardee

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Ms. Marion Bethel, the eleventh recipient of the CARICOM Triennial Award for Women, in her acceptance speech, struck a resounding note  in her call to governments and civil society “to commit  wholeheartedly to zero tolerance for violence against women and girls” and to the “pursuit of a fifty percent representation of women in Parliament”.…

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