Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, Dr. Car­la Bar­nett, on Tues­day said that the re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion group­ing stands in “sol­i­dar­i­ty” with the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty in com­mem­o­rat­ing the 16 Days of Ac­tivism against Gen­der-Based Vi­o­lence.

In a mes­sage, she said that dur­ing the No­vem­ber 25 to De­cem­ber 10 pe­ri­od, four im­por­tant days will be ob­served, name­ly the In­ter­na­tion­al Day for the Elim­i­na­tion of Vi­o­lence against Women on No­vem­ber 25,  Hu­man Rights De­fend­ers’ Day on No­vem­ber 29, World AIDS Day on De­cem­ber 1 and Hu­man Rights Day on De­cem­ber 10.

She said that the cam­paign un­der­scores that vi­o­lence de­nies women and girls the en­joy­ment of the full com­ple­ment of their hu­man rights. “CARI­COM joins this glob­al call to ac­tion against harm­ful gen­der norms, im­puni­ty, si­lence and stig­ma, all of which have al­lowed vi­o­lence against women and girls to be­come nor­malised in far too many com­mu­ni­ties."