Break the silence, stop blaming and shaming women who suffer abuse

by KIRBY JACKSON WOMEN IN ST VINCENT and the Grenadines (SVG) will continue to suffer abuse in silence unless the society becomes more supportive and desist from blaming and shaming them, when they muster the courage to speak out. This was the assessment of a minister of religion who was a panellist on SEARCHLIGHT’s The Press Room programme on Wednesday. “Our society is not generally sympathetic towards women,” said Dr …

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