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CARICOM seeking support for women, teenage girls and children
he prime minister of St Kitts and Nevis had the ear of former US President Bill Clinton yesterday at a Clinton Global Initiative event in New York City. Timothy Harris was there in his capacity as CARICOM’s lead head on human resources, health and HIV/AIDS, holding discussions aimed at promoting and safeguarding the sexual and reproductive health of women, adolescent…
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Message From The Caribbean Community Secretariat To Commemorate International Women’s Day, 8 March, 2017
The Caribbean Community joins with the global community in celebrating International Women’s Day 2017. The theme for this Forty-Second observance is #BeBoldForChange; a clarion call for all citizens of our Region and the world to play their part in forging more gender inclusive, just societies. Over the past four decades, Member States of our Community have made legally binding commitments…
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CARICOM Heads to champion ECWECC initiative: Violence against women and women’s and children’s health are priority interventions
CARICOM Heads of the Government have agreed to champion the Every Caribbean Woman Every Caribbean Child (ECWECC) initiative and other activities focussed on addressing violence against women and women’s and children’s health. The ECWECC initiative revolves around opportunities to improve the lives of women, children and adolescents. It focuses on four priority issues: teenage pregnancy; violence against women and children…
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Signing of the Memorandum Of Understanding on Gender Equality and The Empowerment of Women
Brief Remarks By the SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on the Occasion of the Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding On GENDER EQUALTY AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN Georgetown, Guyana 9 January 2017 I want to thank the United Nations, through its Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) for coming forward to assist the…
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CDB co-hosts Roundtable Discussion on Gender Equality with CARICOM, UN Women
On October 31, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) co-hosted a roundtable discussion in Barbados, “Partnerships for Gender Equality”, with UN Women and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The event was part of the agenda for UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s first visit to the Caribbean. The Roundtable took place at the United Nations House. Patricia McKenzie, Vice-President (Operations), CDB was…
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CDB funding Caribbean music sector development
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — The Caribbean region is known and celebrated for reggae and dancehall, soca, zouk and other genres. Yet many regional artistes, performers, their managers and publishers do not earn a sustainable living from their craft. The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), noting the challenges facing the region’s music sector and affirming its support for the creative industries, has committed…
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CARICOM taking steps to Institutionalise a Gender Sensitive Results-Oriented Culture across the Community
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in June 2016, will initiate the implementation of a “Gender Sensitive Results-Based Management (RBM) System” to build a results-oriented culture around the operationalization of the CARICOM Strategic Plan, 2015 – 2019. Following extensive planning and project design which commenced in December 2014, in August 2015, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) approved funding for the Project entitled…
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Caribbean observes international women’s day
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 8, CMC – Caribbean countries Tuesday joined the international community in observing International Women’s Day with various messages urging support for women, even as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicating that the gender wage gap remaining “an obstacle to women’s economic autonomy and to overcoming poverty and inequality in the region”. ECLAC…
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Empowering Women And Achieving Gender Equality Are Top Priorities For St. Kitts And Nevis, Says PM Harris
Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 08, 2016 (SKNIS): Empowering women and achieving gender equality are top priority issues for St. Kitts and Nevis, said Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, in a statement made in observance of International Women’s Day, today, Tuesday, March 08, under the theme “Pledge for Parity” to promote gender equality. Prime Minister Harris quoted statistics “where,…
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Historic gender equality legislation passed in Bahamas Parliament
NASSAU, Bahamas, Mar. 4, CMC – History was made on Wednesday when Parliament passed four amendments to the constitution, removing the remaining vestiges of discrimination from the law books. Thirty-seven of the 38 legislators voted in favour of the bill. The other Parliamentarian – Hubert Chipman was absent due to illness. Last weekend, Attorney General Allyson Maynard Gibson Q.C. said…
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