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A new research from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and United Nations (UN) Women, yesterday, said nearly 89,000 women and girls were killed intentionally in 2022 across the globe. The research brief, entitled, ‘Gender-Related Killings of Women and Girls Femicide/Feminicide’, revealed that the figure represents the highest yearly number recorded in […]
More women and girls killed in 2022 even as overall homicide numbers fall, says new research from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and United Nations (UN) Women
Independent Senator Paul Richards. -
After Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith took Senator Paul Richards to task for comments on the under-reporting of gender-based violence, Richards has said the commissioner must not have been listening to him properly.
Richards said contrary to the commissioner’s assertions, he at no time identified the police in their current state as complicit in the phenomenon of not following up on reports of gender-based violence. In fact, he praised the police for their new approach.
At the weekly press briefing at the police administration building in Port of Spain on Wednesday, Griffith criticised Richards for saying “reports of gender-based violence have garnered nationwide focus and given rise to several accounts of similar experiences by women whose cases have not been followed up and solved by police.”
The Portapique shooting has exposed the damage white, male entitelement can do. It’s been one year since the mass shooting in Portapique. Across the province, communities and families are taking time to remember the 22 lives that were violently and prematurely taken in an act of misogynist violence. Over the past year we have all struggled to make sense of this violence, the loss of innocent lives and the appropriate pathway forward towards healing. For some of us, the lurking sense of vulnerability to violence and danger in the aftermath of this act is a new and frightening reality that we must come to face. We feel it as police car pulls up slowly behind and we remember that the shooter used a replica police car in order to stalk and gain access to at least one of the victims.