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5. Gender-based Violence

Overview and Statistics

Within the Caribbean, violence against women is pervasive. The 2001 Caribbean Regional Tribunal
on Violence against Women Report observes that far from being a haven, the home for many women
is a dangerous place. Women unlike men are more likely to be beaten and sometimes killed, not by a

stranger but [by someone they know intimately] by a husband, a boyfriend, a partner. Gender-based
violence affects a cross- section of women. It is not confined to specific groups of women in society

and must be placed within the larger context of gender-inequality. 1

• Prevalent Forms of Gender-based Violence

In the Caribbean, the most common forms include; intimate partner violence and sexual violence;
economic exploitation of girls and women; child, marriage. 2

• Prevalence Data
Three of the top ten recorded rape rates in the world occur in the Caribbean. While the
worldwide average for rape was 15 per 100,000, The Bahamas had an average of 133, St. Vincent

and the Grenadines 112, Jamaica 51, Dominica 34, Barbados 25 and Trinidad and Tobago 18. 3

• Vulnerable Groups
Women with either no or low education, women who have been pregnant and women who
began cohabiting with a male partner when they were minors. 4

* Footnotes references see Additional Information slide 120

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