Domestic Violence
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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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Sexual violence against children: the elephant in the room
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) There is growing concern about the alarming levels of violence – particularly sexual violence – against the Caribbean Region’s most vulnerable – our children and our youth. Regrettably, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the nature, genesis, extent, causes and impact of this beast, hence the attempts to tame it has not…
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CARICOM STRENGTHENS INITIATIVES TO REDUCE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community Secretariat is spearheading the development of a project that is expected to reduce the high incidence of violence against women in the Caribbean. Funded under the CARICOM / Spain Cooperation Agreement, the two-year project seeks to develop a more coordinated and integrated approach to reducing Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the…
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