Caribbean youth delegates - Daniella Jacques (Haiti); Keshan Latchman (Trinidad and Tobago) and Christa Soleyn (Barbados) are among over 40 youth activists from across the globe who will meet in Bangkok for the first Global UNiTE Youth Forum.

The Forum is being organized by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s global campaign UNiTE to End Violence against Women, to harness the leadership and engagement of young people in addressing violence against women and girls.

United Nations, New York —UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet today announced the members of her Global Civil Society Advisory Group that will facilitate regular consultations and dialogue between civil society and UN Women.

And former Head of the Women's Rights Programme, International Research and Development Centre, Trinidad and Tobago, Rawwida Baksh is among those appointed to this global Advisory Group.

 Advancing Women’s Transformational Leadership across the Caribbean

ST.JOHN’S (15 MAY) - The Caribbean Institute for Women in Leadership (CIWIL) is inviting young women (21-30), nationals and residents of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago to submit applications for the first Young Women’s Training Institute, a unique initiative designed to strengthen and support young women leaders engaged in efforts to achieve gender justice throughout the region.

This programme is supported by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – UN Women through a grant to the Caribbean Institute to Women in Leadership.