gender based violence

ADDRESS BY DR. CARLA BARNETT, DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, TO THE OPENING SESSION OF THE MEETING OF EXPERTS OF THE CARIBBEAN SUB-REGION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, 20-21 JUNE 2002, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

I am very pleased to be here this morning to participate in the opening session of this meeting of Experts of the Caribbean Sub-Region on Violence against Women, and I wish to thank the organizers for giving me the opportunity to make a few brief remarks on this occasion. The Inter-American Commission on Women is taking another important step in…