Trinidad based CSO champions fight to end violence against women and girls | UN Women

“In Trinidad and Tobago, 40% of women who were survivors of physical or sexual intimate partner violence, witnessed partner violence against their mothers when they were children.”

Source: Inter-American Development Bank National Women’s Health Survey for Trinidad and Tobago and UN Women Caribbean Caribbean Women Count Data Hub.

Create Future Good understands the urgency of curbing family violence and works directly with children to end violence in Trinidad. Under…

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Interview with Sannia Sutherland, Director of Prevention for Jamaica's National HIV/STI Programme

Date: Thursday, 17 April 2014

Jamaica's national response to HIV needs to better address the challenges faced by vulnerable persons, according to Sannia Sutherland, the Director of Prevention for Jamaica's National HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infection Programme. Here she highlights the way that higher unemployment levels among women can disproportionately affect their ability to practice safe sex. As she explains, many must choose between buying food for their family, and buying a condom. With women/girls between…