Step It Up – End Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean

This documentary presents UN Women's community-led intervention and advocacy efforts aimed at building a critical mass of individuals and groups engaged in activism against gender-based violence (GBV). Through interviews with key representatives of governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations, gender advocates and visual and musical artists, the documentary explores the key challenges faced in the Caribbean in addressing GBV, and the work of the UN Women Multi-Country…

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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…

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