Crime Stoppers Dominica (CSD) recently held a community education session for the East in the Kalinago Territory which forms part of CSD’s national gender-based violence project which aims to empower communities to speak up on cases of abuse and gender-based violence using Crime Stoppers Dominica’s easy, confidential and accessible reporting system.The event took place at the Salybia Primary School in collaboration with the Kalinago Council.
The community education session sought to improve the public’s knowledge of Crime Stoppers Dominica and how it can be used as a confidential medium to report crime, increase awareness of the unacceptability of gender-based violence, voyeurism, sexual grooming, underage sex and rape and of the law regarding mandatory reporting. The session was attended by members of the public from the Kalinago Territory and Castle Bruce as well as representatives of various community groups, government organizations, and schools in the area. A presentation was made by the Bureau of Gender Affairs on types of gender-based violence and how it affects victims, their families and the community. Social worker/Counselor and Executive Director of Lifeline Ministries, Mrs. Tina Alexander also shared her knowledge on the Sexual Offences Act with focus on mandatory reporting, grooming, voyeurism, hush money, marital rape and referral pathways. The session concluded with a panel discussion that included the Parliamentary Representative for the Salybia constituency and Minister of the Environment, Rural Modernization and Kalinago Upliftment, Cozier Frederick, Mr. Austin Cyrille, Mrs. Anette Thomas-Sanford and Ms. Willa Cyrille. The panelists highlighted several aspects of gender-based violence including limitations to reporting and explored new initiatives to encourage reporting of gender-based violence issues.
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