The Pinelands Creative Workshop (PCW) is facilitating a one-day workshop on the topic highlighted above on Wednesday, 16th February 2011 at the Horatio Cooke Auditorium, NUPW Headquarters, Dalkeith, St Michael from 10am – 3pm. The Workshop is a component of a new project which is being conducted throughout the Caribbean including Barbados, with the objectives …

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Last year the General Council met and created U.N. Women an agency with a mission to improve gender equality and empower women. Letty Chiwara, head of UNW’s Africa division, said in a recent interview withKaiser‘s Daily Global Health Policy Report: Gender equality is key to women’s health, in order to provide assess to the services they need. …

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Poet, activist and development expert Simone Leid launched a new project last month to encourage women around the Caribbean to speak out about their experiences of discrimination. Leigh-Ann Worrell, a 23-year-old from St Thomas in Barbados, reports. “I am woman, hear me roar/in numbers too big to ignore,” sang a strong, invincible Helen Reddy four …

Correspondence: ‘It all begins with a little (self) R-E-S-P-E-C-T’ Read More »

Poet, activist and development expert Simone Leid launched a new project last month to encourage women around the Caribbean to speak out about their experiences of discrimination. Leigh-Ann Worrell, a 23-year-old from St Thomas in Barbados, reports. “I am woman, hear me roar/in numbers too big to ignore,” sang a strong, invincible Helen Reddy four …

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Investing in the education, health and talents of the world’s female population reaps economic as well as social and political benefits. However success relies on breaking down traditional ideologies and conventions, writes Samantha Khan, an 18-year-old from Trinidad & Tobago. Famed French social critic and writer, François Marie Charles Fourier, once wrote: “The extension of …

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We should ensure that both men and women are empowered, motivated and feel like worthwhile members of society, writes Daniel Boxhill, a 21-year-old from Bridgetown, Barbados. As the pillar of support for the family unit, which functions as the foundation of society, women provide social cohesion and are the backbone of any strong community. They …

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We should ensure that both men and women are empowered, motivated and feel like worthwhile members of society, writes Daniel Boxhill, a 21-year-old from Bridgetown, Barbados. As the pillar of support for the family unit, which functions as the foundation of society, women provide social cohesion and are the backbone of any strong community. They …

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There is so much more that needs to be achieved before Barbados can boast of its achievements in gender equality, writes Leigh-Ann Worrell, a 23-year-old from the town of St Thomas. On the surface, it seems like a cause for celebration. Barbados was named as the second-best place in the Commonwealth to be born a …

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Inheritance is not only a matter of human rights, it adversely affects women’s economic and financial conditions. However the Bangladeshi government is failing to address the issue in national policy, writes Mehzabin Ahmed, a 27-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from Dhaka. Recently there was much hullabaloo in Bangladesh about the National Women Development Policy 2011, which supposedly …

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Inheritance is not only a matter of human rights, it adversely affects women’s economic and financial conditions. However the Bangladeshi government is failing to address the issue in national policy, writes Mehzabin Ahmed, a 27-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from Dhaka. Recently there was much hullabaloo in Bangladesh about the National Women Development Policy 2011, which supposedly …

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