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CARICOM continues to receive failing grades for Trafficking in Persons

WASHINGTON, Jul 1, CMC – Even with a change in administration, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries continue to be…

July 7, 2017
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Shirley Pryce (right) with former Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller who encouraged her.

Shirley, Domestic Worker, Forced To Sleep In The Dog House To Go To School

Shirley Pryce, formerly a domestic worker herself, advocates for domestic workers’ rights in Jamaica and across the Caribbean.…

July 4, 2017
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Shirley Pryce, accorded the prestigious Triennial Award for Women by CARICOM | Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

JAMAICA | Shirley Pryce, Domestic Workers Rights Leader is Twelfth CARICOM Triennial Women Awardee

CARICOM, Georgetown, Guyana, JULY 4,2017 The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) CARICOM will today pay formal recognition to yet…

July 4, 2017
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Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena

CARIBBEAN | ECLAC chief urges Caribbean women to break glass ceiling

MEXICO CITY, Jun 24, CMC –The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean…

June 26, 2017
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Attention to the needs for the old is especially acute when one looks at older women.

CARIBBEAN | Regional countries assess challenges to exercise of human rights by older persons

ASUNCIÓN, Jun. 25, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says regional countries…

June 26, 2017
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Black woman holding the U.S. flag | Photo: Reuters

USA | Social Conditions of Black Women in the U.S. Revealed in Study

The National Domestic Workers Alliance and Institute for Women's Policy Research released a report titled, “The Status of…

June 8, 2017
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Descendants of West Africans residing in the U.S. states of South Carolina and Georgia, the Gullah/Geechee have been able to maintain key aspects of their culture intact, including their language, culture and customs. | Photo: Handout via America's Gullah/Geechee People

Gullah/Geechee Culture at Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival

Gullah/Geechee culture was the focus of the 12th Annual Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival. The event took place on…

June 4, 2017
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BERMUDA | Rights advocates celebrate first gay marriage in Bermuda

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jun 3, CMC — Equal rights campaigners,- including a former cabinet minister, are celebrating Bermuda’s first…

June 3, 2017
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Jakarta’s first non-Muslim governor and Chinese-ethnic minority, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama also known as Ahok, arrives at court for his verdict in Jakarta, Indonesia May 9, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Bay Ismoyo/Pool

Jakarta’s Christian Governor Sentenced to Jail for Blasphemy Against Islam

Jakarta: Jakarta’s Christian governor was sentenced to two years in jail for blasphemy against Islam on Tuesday, a harsher than expected ruling in a trial that…

May 14, 2017
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CARIBBEAN | Online human rights incidence database launched

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 9, CMC – The region’s first online database that will enable a standard system for…

May 10, 2017
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Trans Baptist reverend Allyson Robinson from the US (L), trans pastors Cindy Bourgeois from Canada (2nd L) and Alexya Salvador from Brazil (2nd R) and lesbian pastor Elaine Saralegui sing during a mass in Matanzas, Cuba, May 5, 2017. Picture taken on May 5, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini

CUBA Hosts World’s First Transgender Mass

Matanzas, Cuba: For decades belonging to a religion and being anything but heterosexual was stigmatised in Communist-ruled, macho…

May 8, 2017
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