Human rights expert Marion Bethel said yesterday the Protection of Violence Bill, 2023, which MPs passed on Thursday night, fails to support an internationally accepted human rights approach to the critical issue of gender-based violence and added that the legislation is far less comprehensive in addressing the issue than the Gender-Based Violence Bill, 2016, which
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Despite opposition from women’s rights groups to the government’s decision to proceed with the Protection Against Violence Bill, Prime Minister Philip Davis, while in the House of Assembly yesterday, led debate on the bill, noting that it is more “inclusive” than the Gender-Based Violence Bill initially proposed. In a statement late Wednesday night, Women United, Bahamas
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