Step It Up – End Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean
Date: Tuesday, 8 May 2018
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…
Date: Friday, 13 May 2016
UN Women's Share the Care campaign highlights the importance of shared family responsibilities between fathers and mothers, men and women for children’s development and gender equality.UN Women embarked on the campaign to promote shared parental care and particular the role of fathers and the contribution such makes to the healthy development of the children as well as the benefits of deeper meaningful involvement for parents. The need for such a campaign was reinforced by findings…
Date: Friday, 13 May 2016
UN Women's Share the Care campaign highlights the importance of shared family responsibilities between fathers and mothers, men and women for children’s development and gender equality.UN Women embarked on the campaign to promote shared parental care and particular the role of fathers and the contribution such makes to the healthy development of the children as well as the benefits of deeper meaningful involvement for parents. The need for such a campaign was reinforced by findings…
HeforShe: Dads Sharing the Care
Date: Friday, 13 May 2016
UN Women's Share the Care campaign highlights the importance of shared family responsibilities between fathers and mothers, men and women for children’s development and gender equality.UN Women embarked on the campaign to promote shared parental care and particular the role of fathers and the contribution such makes to the healthy development of the children as well as the benefits of deeper meaningful involvement for parents. The need for such a campaign was reinforced by findings…
Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Cynthia Wilson has stepped it up for gender equality in education and arts throughout her 80years. She worked as a high school English teacher in Jamaica and Morocco, before returning home to Barbados in 1969, and serving in Barbados' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the Caribbean Tourism Research Centre. She was instrumental in establishing the National Independence Festival of creative Arts (NIFCA) in 1973, and for nearly thirty years has been representing her country and the…
Date: Monday, 22 February 2016
Regular and accessible data can inform on whether a nation’s development is impacting men and women fairly. As part of its strategy to contribute to the localising of the Sustainable Development Goals, UN Women MCO Caribbean, in partnership with the CARICOM Regional Statistical Programme, is supporting the piloting of the CARICOM Gender Equality Indicators (GEI) Model, to advance the measurement of gender equality in the region. Agreement was reached on CARICOM indicators to monitor the…
Experiences of Women’s Political Empowerment – Jamaica Rwanda South South Dialogue
Date: Friday, 5 February 2016
A Jamaica Rwanda South South Dialogue led by the UN Women Multi-Country Office – Caribbean with the University of the West Indies Mona Campus, UWI Leads Programme saw Rwanda Member of Parliament, the Honourable Juliana Kantengwa share her country’s experiences of women’s empowerment and the overall sustainable development gains made through increasing women’s political leadership. The progress outlined builds on gender equality platforms as set out in the Beijing Platform for Action, which…
Jamaica Rwanda South South Dialogue
Date: Friday, 5 February 2016
Women’s increased participation in politics is necessary for realising sustainable development. Substantive equality in women’s leadership is equality in form (the numbers) AND substance. The UN Women Multi-Country Office - Caribbean led project with the University of the West Indies UWI Leads Programme at the Mona Campus supported a South South Dialogue with the Government of Rwanda, with the visit of Rwanda Member of Parliament and former Vice President of the Pan African Parliament, the…
Enamórate de ti misma con Andrea Echeverri Arias
Date: Monday, 23 November 2015
La cantante colombiana Andrea Echeverri Arias hace hincapié en la violencia psicológica y las presiones que las mujeres experimentan en sus vidas cotidianas. Echeverri Arias trae un mensaje positivo y llama a las mujeres a empoderarse mediante el enamorarse de sí mismas. La entrevista fue una colaboración conjunta entre el Centro de Capacitación de ONU Mujeres y la Oficina País de ONU Mujeres para Republica Dominicana, y fue grabada durante la celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujer en…
Date: Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Under a joint UN programme, UN Women and UNICEF are supporting national budget directors and finance officers from the Eastern Caribbean in conducting gender analyses to design and cost budgets that are child and gender responsive. Mr. Claudius Emmanuel – Deputy Budget Director, Saint Lucia explains the programme’s benefits.
Partnerships with Caribbean Women Towards Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods
Date: Tuesday, 2 September 2014
With the continued impacts of climate change and ongoing economic crises, research tells us that it has become ever more critical to increase women’s empowerment. Gender equality and women’s empowerment have a multiplier effect for all of society –accelerating national and local economic growth, poverty reduction and improved food security for communities and families. Recognising that women in The Bahamas, Dominica and Jamaica are strongly engaged in key sectors as farmers, food producers…
Autonomisation des femmes - autonomisation de l'humanité: imaginez !
Date: Thursday, 5 June 2014
Il est temps de remplir la vision énoncée à la Conférence des femmes de Beijing en 1995. Rejoignez-nous. Imaginez – un monde où aucune femme n’est réduite au silence, objectivée ou abusée parce qu'elle est née femme – un monde où les filles et les garçons, les femmes et les hommes sont égaux. Suivez #Beijing20 et parlez ! See more at: http://beijing20.unwomen.org/fr
Empowering Women - Empowering Humanity: Picture It!
Date: Thursday, 5 June 2014
Empowering women empowers humanity. It's time to fulfill the vision laid out at the Beijing Women's Conference in 1995. Join us. Picture it - a world where no woman is silenced, objectified or abused because she was born female. A world where girls and boys and women and men are equal.Follow #Beijing20.Speak up!For more information, please visit: http://beijing20.unwomen.org/
Jamaican Artist CeCile Says NO to Violence against Women (UNiTE PSA)
Date: Thursday, 17 April 2014
Jamaican Artists Stacious and Tanya Stephens Say NO to Violence against Women (UNiTE PSA)
Date: Thursday, 17 April 2014
Sistren Theatre Collective - Jamaica (UN Trust Fund grantee)
Date: Thursday, 17 April 2014
In Jamaica, women and girls face violence not only in private but also in the public sphere, where interpersonal conflicts often escalate into gang wars. The Sistren Theatre Collective uses participatory learning techniques that blend education, life skills building, community mobilization, and the arts to empower women, girls, and young men, and influence communities to take action against violence.
Jamaican Artists Lubert Levy and Troy-Ann Anjorie Say NO to Violence against Women (UNiTE PSA)
Date: Thursday, 17 April 2014
Caribbean Artist Nicole David Says NO to Violence against Women (UNiTE PSA)
Date: Thursday, 17 April 2014
This Public Service Announcement is one of several featuring Caribbean Artists "UNiTEing" to End Violence Against Women.In this PSA, soca music artist and Saint Lucian Nicole David -- commonly referred to as St Lucia's Queen of Soca -- shares her thoughts on violence against women. (Producer: UNiTE, UN Women; Year of Release: 2010)
Jamaican Artists Stevie Face and Andy Livingston Say NO to Violence against Women (UNiTE PSA)
Date: Thursday, 17 April 2014
UNiTE Caribbean Artist Nelly Stharre on Ending to Violence against Women through Music
Date: Thursday, 17 April 2014
UNiTE Caribbean artist Nelly Stharre of Dominica, shares on the special and important connections, artists have with their audiences to be effective advocates for the UN Secretary-General's UNiTE to End Violence Against Women Campaign. Nelly Stharre signed onto the campaign in 2010 having participated in a sensitisation workshop conducted by the then UNIFEM Caribbean Office. Engaging in advocacy even prior to her formal association with the campaign, Nelly uses the opportunities offered…