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From harmful social norms to discriminatory laws, women and girls continue to face entrenched obstacles – even pushback – to equal justice. If progress continues at its current pace, it will take 286 years to close legal protection gaps. That is not a timeline, it’s surrender. Without justice systems that work for women, rights become a promise that never arrives.
Caribbean Women Count: The Ending Violence against Women and Girls Data Hub is a central repository of knowledge on the prevalence of the different forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) and non-partner sexual violence from five countries (Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago) and barriers to accessing services in CARICOM.
The SIDS Gender Equality Forum (GEF) was held May 25-26th, 2024 at Nelson's Dockyard, Antigua and Barbuda just days ahead of the global convening for the SIDS4. Find out how we can work together to shape a more equal future.
An Interactive Learning Portal for Parliamentarians. This portal is a joint-initiative of ParlAmericas and the UN Women Multi-Country Office - Caribbean. It is designed for self-guided learning and includes resources for in-person trainings. ParlAmericas gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Government of Canada used in developing this portal. The downloadable tools on this portal were developed by the UN Women Multi-Country Office - Caribbean.
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This UN Women feature video captures focus group discussions on “Recognising, Reducing, Redistributing Unpaid Care Work and Rewarding and Representing Paid Care Work in Barbados” under Joint SDG Fund Project ‘Integrated Population Data and Policy Solutions to Accelerate SDGs Achievement in Barbados and Montserrat’.
Participants representing mothers, fathers, people living with disabilities, retired people, members of the faith-based community and youth shared their experience with unpaid care work and feedback on what policies, programmes, and services are needed to address the challenges.
Generation Equality Midpoint Moment
Generation Equality remains a critical advocacy and programming initiative as an accelerator for the SDGs at a time when women’s rights are under increased threats globally and progress has stalled and reversed in more than 30 percent of the SDGs.
Learn more from Project Executive of the Generation Equality Initiative and Regional Director of UN Women Americas and the Caribbean, Maria Noel Vaeza.
More information here.
