from Amnesty International Caribbean/Caribe/Caraïbes Facebook post "The UN and OAS Special Rapporteurs on the rights of women visited four Caribbean countries to document the situation of violence against girls and women: Jamaica, Barbados, Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago. The specialists reported "that many interlocutors described violence against women and girls as normalized, widespread and of pandemic proportions, and underreported."
They concluded that "a holistic approach to responding to and
preventing violence against women and girls requires addressing
individual, institutional and structural violence which
disproportionately affects women and girls. Violence against women is a
human rights violation, which precludes the realization of all other
human rights and is a barrier to the effective exercise of citizenship
rights." Read more: 
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Photo: Commissioner Tracy Robinson, rapporteur on the rights of women of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
ow.ly/MkhMr"Photo: Commissioner Tracy Robinson, rapporteur on the rights of women of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
