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22/09/08
YWCA challenged to take on a greater advocacy role for gender equality and women's empowerment |
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Speaking at the installation of the Board of Management for the Barbados YWCA, Roberta Clarke, Regional Programme Director of UNIFEM, lauded the Y's long history of service and social action.
Referring to the Y's encouragement of leadership qualities such as shared leadership, nurturance and doing good for others, Clarke echoed the call for the ... [more]
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17/11/2008
Barbados Commissioner of Police Dottin signs on to sayNOtoviolence |
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UNIFEM is being joined by the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police in the implementation of a 6 country programme aimed at 'Strengthening State and Community Actions to end Gender-based Violence'.
This work focuses on reducing violence against women, through the strategies of increasing state actor competencies, strengthening account ... [more]
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14/11/2008
Minister Priya Manickchand signs on to sayNOtoviolence campaign |
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On 13 November 2008, Minister Priya Manickchand signed on to the sayNOtoviolence campaign. This sign on comes at a time when the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security in Guyana is spearheading legislative reform of the sexual offences law in Guyana.
Under the proposed Act, the corroboration rule has been abolished as has the defence of ma ... [more]
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12/09/2008
Will Women Benefit from the Economic Partnership Agreement? |
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In a meeting to discuss the gendered implications of the EPA convened by UNIFEM and ECLAC on 28-29 July, participants debated the sharply diverging perspectives on the opportunities, threats, costs and benefits presented by the EPA scheduled to be signed in September.
There was general agreement that a wider range of organizations from civil so ... [more]
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12/09/2008
Barbados Cabinet Approves the Establishment of a Data Collection Protocol on Gender-based Violence |
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The Cabinet of Barbados gave the green light to the recently developed data collection protocol on domestic violence and stakeholders are expected to begin using it by August, 2008. Supported by UNIFEM, the Bureau of Gender Affairs developed the protocol because of an identified need to monitor the impact of policies and programmes employed in the ... [more]
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10/10/2008
Indigenous Women from Belize, Dominica, Guyana and Suriname challenge exclusion and discrimination |
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Over 100 persons attended the opening of the UNIFEM/Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, Guyana on 'Caribbean Indigenous Women: Voice, Participation and Influence for Sustainable Development' on 9 October 2008 in Georgetown, Guyana.
This meeting, the first of its kind in the Caribbean, brought together indigenous and tribal women from Belize, Dominic ... [more]
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10/10/08
Improving legal and social policy responses to domestic violence: The need for data |
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Countries in the process of implementing data collection protocols for gender-based violence (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago) met in a one day meeting on 25 September in Grenada with the technical support of UNIFEM, PAHO and UNFPA, to discuss progress on the implementation of an integrated data collection ... [more]
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