Ending the cycle of domestic violence and abuse continues to be a priority issue, according to Minister of Human Services Jennifer Webster, who says more steps are being considered to augment the ministry’s current programme.
She made this disclosure in her address at a Women and Gender Equality Com-mission forum on Monday. Representatives from the Rights of the Child Commis-sion, Indigenous People’s Commission, Chambers of the Director of Public Prose-cution, Women’s Pro-gressive Organisation, National Con-gress of Women, the judicial system, Help and Shelter, Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Legal Aid Clinic shared snippets of case studies and the challenges they experience in their respective agencies at the forum, which was held in observance of International Women’s Day 2012.
Under the theme “Access to Justice for Women,” some of the issues that were highlighted are the need for networking and the sharing of inter-sectoral information, jury duty, the need for
