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IGDS Engagement and Expertise in
Gender-Based Violence 

 

CONTENTS

 

Current Professional | Public Service

2018. Prof. Rhoda Reddock, Professor of Gender and Social Change, was elected to the United Nations Committee on the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).  Prof Reddock is the first Trinidadian to have been elected to the Committee.  

 

Publications

2019. “Can there be Justice in a Sex Offender Register?” Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. 11 February 2019. Express 13 February 2019 Nixon, Angelique V.

2018. 1834-2018: Workshop 3, Friday 20th and Saturday 21st April 2018. Paper presented: ‘Masculinism, Intimate Partner Violence and State Accountability G. Hosein.

2018. "Reinforcing Sexism and Misogyny: Social Media, Symbolic Violence and the Construction of Femininity-as-Fail”. Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol 19, Issue 3.2018 S. Barratt.

2017. S. Barratt. “Reinforcing Sexism and Misogyny: Social Media, Symbolic Violence and the Construction of Femininity-as-Fail.”. Colombo, Sri Lanka. May 4-6, 2017

2015. P. Morgan The Arc of Memory in the Aftermath of Trauma. Editor. Oxford. Interdisciplinary Press. 2015 . http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing. ISBN 978-1-84888-406-9 120 pp

2015. P. Morgan. The Terror and the Time: Banal Violence and Trauma in Caribbean Discourse. Mona: The University of the West Indies Press. 2014. ISBN 978-976-640-496-3. 222 pp. Launched by UWI Campus Principal. October 7th, 2015

2014. Reddock, Rhoda “Breaking the Silence of Child Sexual Abuse in the Caribbean: A Community-Based Action Research Intervention Model” Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, Vol. 23, Issue 3, 2014, pp. 256-277 (with Sandra D. Reid and Tisha Nickenig)

 

Graduate Student Research | Thesis

2019. Jacqueline Kennedy-Benn MSc- Evaluating the current screening process used by nurses antenatal clients to determine if they are experiencing Intimate Partner Violence. Supervisor: Dr Sue-Ann Barratt

2016. Tricia Basdeo, MSc in Gender and Development. A Comparative Analysis on Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence by Men and Women in Trinidad and Tobago Supervisor: Ms Deborah Mc Fee. 

 

Research Projects

2018. In collaboration with UN Women, the IDB and the Office of the Prime Minister, Gender and Child Affairs Division. The IGDS chaired the Research Steering Committee for Trinidad and Tobago’s first National Survey on Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Health, and produced the accompanying national Qualitative Study on Gender-Based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago 

2019. Break the Silence (BTS) Action Research Project, Campaign and Network Ongoing (Commenced: Research 2009, Campaign 2011) Activities/Outreach Report July 2018- June 2019 Lead Researchers: Prof. Rhoda Reddock and Dr. Sandra Reid Research Assistant: Marcus Kissoon. 2019.

2018. The #EndGBV” Campaign was launched in collaboration with the 2 Cents Movement, and included outreach to forty secondary schools. Funded by the Canadian High Commission, the project included a digital media campaign followed which ran on eight electronic billboards in Trinidad and Tobago over the period of 16 Days of Activism in 2017, 

2015. Women’s Conversation Project The Women’s Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) in 2008 introduced a community based project which is intended to mobilize women in selected communities to analyze the impact of gun violence on their lives and their communities and make recommendations for violence prevention and alleviation. In 2015, the IGDS partnered with WINAD as it expanded the Conversation beyond violence, and increase the number of communities involved in the Conversations was increased .

 

Conferences | Symposia | Public Fora

2018. Break the Silence Educators and Child Sexual Abuse Symposium The symposium was hosted by the School of Education Library , in collaboration with the IGDS and the Early Childhood Caravan. The event was the official launch of the BTS Teacher Training Tool Kit.

2018. “BoardRoom Bullies?; What to do to end Sexual Harassment? This lunchtime forum was Chaired by Dr Angelique Nixon. Panelists Lynette Seebaran-Suite, Chair of the EOC , Frances Bain-Cumberbatch, Group Head of Legal & Corporate Secretary – ANSA McAL Limited  Adeline Gregoire, Women Everywhere  and Kirk Waithe, Fixin T&T 

2017. "Necessary Changes to the Domestic Violence Act: Recommendations for Ending Violence Against Women" This forum was hosted by the IGDS in partnership with the Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC). 2017.

2017. Lunch Time Seminar. Witnessing Gender-Based Violence: Adolescent experiences and attitudes –Prof. Shahana Rasool, Head of Department of Social Work, University of Johannesburg.

2017. Lunch Time Seminar. Gender, Violence, Discrimination and the Deaf Community of Trinidad a Tobago- Ben Braithwaite, Cheryl Maniram and Ian Dhanoola. 2017.

2017. Lunch Time Seminar. Ramona Boodoosingh “Plural Legal Systems in Samoa: The Impact on Access Justice for Survivors of Domestic Violence” May 22–25, 2017.

2017. Law Studies Association Conference International Meeting, Mexico. June 20-23 2017. Paper presented: The Grandmother and the Girl in the State: Kamla Persad-Bissessar and the Children’s Act in Trinidad and Tobago British Academy Research Network Crime and its Representation in the Anglophone Caribbean, G. Hosein.

2017. “Tief a Wine: Masculine Entitlement and Rape Culture in the Trinidad and Tobago Masquerade”. The UWI St. Augustine Campus. March 2017. S. Barrat

2016. S. Barratt “Power and Privilege, Conflict Styles and Interpersonal Communication Conflict” presented at Trinity Hall Leadership Initiative, November 4, 2015 S.Barratt “Human Sexuality, Gender Roles and Responsibilities” presented at Rape Crisis Centre, Basic Counselling course, March 5, 2016

2016. P. Morgan Panelist “Laventille as Repository of Societal Trauma” in: Reframing Research and Policy around Vulnerability and Violence in East Port of Spain. In IGDS School of Education Library three-part Series. Women Speak: Setting New Research Agendas: Reframing Public Policy- Gender Education and Access. International Women’s Day. March 2016.

2016. P. Morgan “Societal Trauma and Gender-Based Violence” Series of Public Lectures under the Institute for Gender and Development Roaming Professors Series delivered at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts, Belize City; University of Belize Belmopan and the Belizean Chamber of Industry and Commerce. March 2016. 14

2016. R. Reddock “Violence Against Women and Children: A Continuing Challenge to Citizen Security” presented at UNDP Development Dialogue on Citizen Security, Hyatt Regency Trinidad, July 7, 2016.

2016. SALISES, Public Lecture Series February 24, 2016 Violence Against Women: A Political Issue? CHAIR: Professor Patrick Watson, University Director, SALISES, The UWI, St. Augustine. Panellists: Dr. Gabrielle Hosein, Lecturer, Institute for Gender and Development Studies; Mrs. Margaret Sampson-Browne ,Manager, Victims and Witness Support Unit; Representative from the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Mr. Amilcar Sanatan, MPhil Student, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, St. Augustine.

2016. Faculty of Law Public Forum, March 3, 2016 Deconstructing Masculinity and Violence Against Women A distinguished panel of experts discussed the impact of traditional conceptions of masculinity on the perpetuation of violence against women as well as the response of the justice system, in light of Trinidad and Tobago’s International Human Rights commitments. Panellists include: Dr. Levi Gahman , IGDS; Natalie O’Brady, Rape Crisis Centre/CADV T&T; Gaietry Pargass , Attorney- at-Law/CAFRA T&T; Veronica Aragón , Faculty of Law. Moderator: Elizabeth Solomon , Caribbean Centre for Human Rights.

2016. P. Morgan “In Praise of Excellent Ettie: The Affective Impact of Migrant Domestic Women’s Work.” Conference on Turning Tides: Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond. The UWI and Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut. February 2016.

2016. "Eliminating Violence Against Women" SALISES & IGDS, Chair Professor Patrick Watson; Panelists: Mrs. Lynette Seebaran-Suite, Attorney-at-Law and Women’s Rights Activist; Ms Asiya Mohammed, Founder and CEO, Conflict Women Ltd.; Mr. Wendell de Léon, Behaviour Change Therapist; Dr Gabrielle Hosein, Head, IGDS October 10, 2016.

2016. "Marriage Act: Too Young Too Wed" In collaboration with the Coalition to End Child Marriage, IGDS in collaboration with the Coalition to End Child Marriage hosted a public forum on the Marriage Acts in Trinidad and Tobago in commemoration of the November 30, 2016.

2015. P. Morgan “Naipaulian Mothers and Motherlands.” Conference on Seepersad and Sons: Naipaulian Creative Synergies. The UWI St. Augustine. October 2015.

2015. P. Morgan “Cultures of Abuse and Folkways of Healing in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber” . West Indian Literature Conference. University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. October 2015

2015. P. Morgan “When History is a Pile of Manacles”: Gender Trauma and Disability in Chariandry’s Soucouyant. Conference on the Rights, Roles and Responsibilities of Persons with Disabilities. The UWI St Augustine. April 2015.

2015. The UNFPA and Ministry of Education launched a Health and Family Life Education project which gives specific focus to the development of the sex and sexuality component of the current curriculum. Through some evaluation of the HFLE curriculum, it has been found that teachers, even those who have been trained, still have difficulty relaying sexual content to students. One way of alleviating some of their concerns is through sensitization training, led by specialists in the field. IGDS collaborated on this project by providing facilitation services on the area of child sexual abuse with secondary school teachers across Trinidad and Tobago. 2015.

2014. R Reddock. Welcome to Paradise: Gender, Labour, Violence and the Crisis: Global and Local Reflections Material MaZers in Times of Crisis Capitalism: Transnational Feminist and Decolonial Approaches Giessen, Germany, November 13-15, 2014 [November 28 2014 “Making Meaning of the Violence in their Communities: The Case of Jamaican Youth.” with Profs. Carl James and Andrea Davis of York University].

 

Outreach | Workshops

2017. Gender Based Violence Healing Workshop 
The IGDS in collaboration with Wholeness and Wellness Counselling facilitated a GBV healing workshop which aimed to use art and poetry to discuss issues of gender-based violence – especially for people who have experienced GBV with a focus on women and sexual minorities (LGBTQI & gender non-conforming). Using Black feminist poet Audre Lorde's visionary praxis on the need to transform silence into language and action, this workshop offers space to do just that -- share, transform silence, and create change. Participants were given prompts to create their own responses through writing and/or art focusing on creating awareness, speaking out, healing, and building transformation. January 2017. 

2017-2018. Gender-based violence workshop with 2Cents Movement team. 
July 2017, IGDS partnered with the 2Cents Movement on a national secondary school caravan using spoken word and poetry to bring awareness of the issues of gender- based violence through the creation of an "End GBV" campaign. Facilitated Presentations on Child Sexual Abuse for UNFPA & Ministry of Education, The UNFPA and Ministry of Education launched a Health and Family Life Education project which gives specific focus to the development of the sex and sexuality component of the current curriculum.

2017. Break the Silence Teacher Training Workshop Break the Silence Student Art Contest: Raising Awareness about Gender, Child Sexual Abuse and Implications for HIV in Trinidad and Tobago. 
The inaugural workshop was held on Campus and included 10 teachers from eight secondary schools throughout Trinidad. IGDS plans to engage teachers in Tobago in future years. The purpose of the teacher training workshop is to provide teachers with a comprehensive understanding about the intersection between gender, CSA and high-risk behavior that leads to HIV. Coming out of these discussions from the workshop, IGDS has compiled a teacher training toolkit to assist teachers in their classroom advocacy efforts related to gender, CSA and HIV

2017. International Day of the Girl Child Panel Discussion. Chair: Gabrielle Hosein, Lecturer, IGDS, UWI. Panelists: Brenda Gopeesingh of Hindu Women’s Organization, Donna Da Costa-Martinez of Family Planning Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Khadija Sinanan of  WOMANTRA and Asiya Mohammed of Conflict Women. December 9, 2016.

2015. Art Exhibition April - 10 May on Break the Silence, end child sexual abuse at the School of Education Library, The UWI St Augustine. 2015.

 

Professional | Public Service

2018. Prof. Rhoda Reddock, Professor of Gender and Social Change, was elected to the United Nations Committee on the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).  Prof Reddock is the first Trinidadian to have been elected to the Committee.  

 

Campaigns 

2020. WriteYuhMP Campaign

2018. TT Companies Can 

2018. Caribbean Men Can #CaribbeanMenCan

2017. Red Card for Rape 

2017. Women's Rights Everyone's Responsibility 

 

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