Jamaica's PM message for International Women's Day |
This year’s commemoration of International Women’s Day carries special significance, as it marks the centenary of the event. This therefore brings into sharper focus the challenges faced, obstacles overcome and achievements attained, which have characterized this 100-year journey.
Over the years, Jamaica has signaled its unwavering commitment to the advancement and upliftment of women, through the signing of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1981 and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women in 2005. A raft of legislation has also been passed, in a bid to offer protection to our women. The Government of Jamaica, in an effort to widen the scope of legislative measures to address sexual offences against women, had tabled the Sexual Offences Bill, which was debated and approved in Parliament. It amalgamated the various laws that relate to rape, incest and other sexual offences; and repealed the Incest (Punishment) Act and certain provisions of the Offences Against the Person Act, to make new provisions for the prosecution of rape and other sexual offences, as well as the establishment of a Sex Offender Registry.
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