Caribbean women subject to widespread sexual violence

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - exual violence against women is being seen as widespread in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Alessandra Guedes, Regional Advisor on Intra-Family Violence at PAHO has indicated that a recent report titled “Violence against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean” showed that unfortunately violence against women is widespread in the 12 countries that they studied which included; Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Jamaica.
“We found for instance that between 17 per cent of women and 53 per cent of women interviewed reported having suffered physical or sexual violence [with an] intimate partner. And in fact in seven of the 12 countries, more than one in four women reported such violence,” she stated.