Running head: CARIBBEAN / CAYMAN ANALYSIS

" Gender Discrimination And Domestic Violence: A Caribbean/ Cayman Analysis"

Chantae Richards
International College the Cayman Islands
December 11, 2016

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On Thursday, November 28, 2016 at the Harquil theatre Grand Cayman. This special
occasion was I gender discrimination and domestic violence in the Caribbean/ Cayman
analysis. With the information that was said by the two speakers, Dr. Dalea Bean and Professor.
Verene A. Shepherd.
The first speaker Dr. Delea Bean, who talked about gender discrimination, domestic
violence against woman. Violence against women is defined by 19th ancients by a manifestation
of historically unequal power relation between men and women. Which led to a domination
over and discrimination against women by men and a prevention of the full advancement of
women. Domestic violence is projected behaviour use to establish the power protocol over a
person through fear and intimidation. Dr. Bean said that this is often included threats or use of
violence.
Domestic violence as we know are known by different names, for example, intimate
partner violence, relationship abuse, spouse abuse and family violence. The united nation,
estimate that globally 1 in 3 women will experience physical or sexual violence at some point in
their life. A significant amount of the world population is subjected to torture, murder,
brutalization, beating and other form of violence.
Gender discrimination specifically far from being isolated. In 2015 United States
general services shock the Caribbean regional legislative. The Caribbean has the highest rate of
sexual assault in the world. She mentions there are three Caribbean countries that are in the top
ten for recording of rapes. These countries are Bermuda, Surinam and Grenada. According to
Margaret Sampson Brown, who is the head of the victims and witness report unit of Trinidad
and Tobago police service, between 2005 to 2015 almost three hundred women were murdered
as a result of domestic violence. This is an average of 30 women per year.

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According to the director of the Cayman islands crisis Centre reports of domestic
violence has been on the rise for the pass three years. In 2014 to 2015 report of domestic
violence as increased by 28%. The men of domestic violence in this case are physical abuse,
slapping, punching, choking, twisting risk, pulling off hair, kicking or any form weapon. Almost
1 in 5 girls says that they have been sexually abused in childhood and 1 in 20 said that they
have been raped the first time they have sex.
On to the second speaker prof. Verene A. Shepherd who elaborated on the history of
domestic violence against women. The European institute for gender equity types of GBV are
domestic violence, sexual harassment, rape. Sexual conflict and harmful customary or traditional
practices. For example, forced marriage, and honour crimes. Also violations of human rights in
armed conflict example, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy and systematic rape. Professor
Shepherd talked about the U.N declaration on the elimination of VAW in 1993. The
manifestations of violence under slavery is the invasion and capture, forced kidnapping and
trafficking, the chaining and shipment of Africans, the sale and branding of Africans on the
plantations and also rape and other forms of violence on the middle passage and later on the
ships with indentured Indians.
In Orlando Patterson sociology of slavery is the sexual exploitation of female slaves by
white men were the most disgraceful aspect of Jamaican salve society. Rape and the seduction of
infant slaves, the ravishing of the common law wives of male slaves under the threat of
punishment which involve hideous forms of sexual torture. A 1751 diary of Thomas thistle wood
she was used to highlight the date and name of women who faces abuse, example, 8th Jany: cum
Phibbah ( his long term, enslaved wife), 10th Sept: about 2 am, cum Negro girl on the floor, 21st
Nov: about 1 am cum Ellen an Ebo by the morass and 3rd Dec: cum Jenny.

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This community Resource project, I can use this information and apply it to any working
environment. Fight against gender equality among women in the work place. Also to fight
against verbal abuse in any workplace. This information that I absorbed from both speakers will
help me in my professional growth.