Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, says re­cent cas­es of vi­o­lence against women in Trinidad and To­ba­go re­quire na­tion­al ac­tion.

In a state­ment, Mo­hit said in­ci­dents of gen­der-based and do­mes­tic vi­o­lence re­main on­go­ing is­sues af­fect­ing in­di­vid­u­als, fam­i­lies and com­mu­ni­ties.

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices said it con­tin­ues to ad­dress gen­der-based vi­o­lence through pol­i­cy and ser­vices. The state­ment said vi­o­lence in phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al, psy­cho­log­i­cal and dig­i­tal forms af­fects women and girls.