BOBIE-LEE DIXON
While it remains puzzling to most why so much violence continues to be meted out to women in Trinidad and Tobago by men and why gender-based violence has become a pandemic itself attracting global fights by advocacy groups one local activist believes these continued acts of violence has a lot to do with “damaged people.”
President of the Organisation for Abused and Battered Individuals (OABI), Sherna Alexander-Benjamin, said there were various factors, enabling a person to harm another.
“We go back to the saying “hurting people hurt people” and this hurt is expressed in various ways and degrees,” said Alexander-Benjamin.
Activists renew call: Work needed to fight gender-based violence in 2021 - SUREASH CHOLAI
2020 began and ended with incidents of gender-based and domestic violence which left women and girls dead or seriously injured. Twenty-one of the 47 women killed in 2020 were victims of domestic and/or gender-based violence.
While government and state agencies, including the TTPS, have put some measures in place to deal with the issue, greater change is needed on a societal and individual level to make a real change. Activists say while the issue of gender-based violence is one that takes the spotlight, the issue of violence on the whole needs to be addressed.
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