Violence Against Women In the Caribbean

The Inter-American Development Bank committed to fund a Regional Training Programme on Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment, specifically for Police Officers and Social Workers. Additional funding is being secured from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) for countries that are not members of the IDB.

The project will be conducted in three phases - Production of the Training Manual, and Training of twelve Trainers; Training of 200 Trainers, and in-country training of Police Officers and Social Workers in seventeen Caribbean countries.

This project is fostering a new relationship between the women’s movement and the Police as well as strengthening CAFRA’s outreach to new donors.

The Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights grants small amounts of money at crucial and strategic moments supporting of the human rights of women and girls as reflected in the Beijing Platform for Action.

The fund awarded a grant to CAFRA for lawyers to appeal before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, DC. The case of a young mother sentenced to death for the murder of her abusive husband.