Almost ten months after the World Health Organization's announcement about the arrival of the pandemic, the particular impact that it has had on the lives of women is becoming more evident every day. Along with the loss of life caused by the virus, this crisis's most tragic expression is the escalation of sexual and gender-based violence. This increase responds to direct risk … [Read more...] about Collaboration, cooperation, innovation to stop gender-based violence
Intimate Partner Violence
Numbers too big to ignore
In Trinidad and Tobago, technically, there is no greater time to be born a woman than now. On average, female life expectancy at birth is the highest it has ever been. The maternal mortality rate is at its lowest over the past decade. Girls are spending more time in school than ever before, and more of them are attaining at least a secondary level of education than their male … [Read more...] about Numbers too big to ignore