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B'dos and UN partner on project to stamp out gender-based violence

March 2, 2021
Barbados has recorded an increase in reported cases of domestic violence during the recent COVID-19 lockdown, many of which were intimate partner violence.
Representative of the UN WOMEN Multi-Country Office Caribbean, Tonni Brodber, said today that in March 2020 there was a 125 per cent increase in domestic violence cases, and in April 2020 an 88 per cent rate had been reported.
Speaking during the virtual launch of the Gender-Based Violence in the Workplace Project, a partnership between the Ministry of Labour and Social Partnership Relations and UN Women, Brodber said Barbados’ statistics were a reflection of an increase in domestic violence reports across the OECS during the lockdown. ....

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'Domestic violence up during lockdown'

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BARBADOS SAW an approximately 83 per cent increase in reported incidents of domestic violence in the first two quarters of the COVID-19 lockdown last year.
Representative of the United Nations Women Multi-Country Office Caribbean, Tonni Brodber, shared the information yesterday from data collected about this social effect of the pandemic on some vulnerable people confined to their homes.
She said the data indicated that in March 2020 there was a 125 per cent increase in domestic violence and an 88 per cent increase in April.
“The data only takes us through the first two quarters of 2020, but it says a lot about the COVID-19 lockdown and the associated employment, family and overall well-being burdens and responses,” Brodber said. ....

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