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Sascha Wil­son

The re­cent mur­ders of Sta­cy Sama­roo and Rashme Deoa­jit have reignit­ed calls from a women’s group for a spe­cial court to ad­dress gen­der-based vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Asiya Mo­hammed, founder and CEO of Con­flict Women, ex­pressed deep sad­ness over the deaths, not­ing that In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day, ob­served on March 8, car­ried the theme “Jus­tice, Ac­tion and Rights.”