November 30, 2011
Center Announces NEW GlobalPOWER® Program for 2012
The Center is delighted to announce our NEW regional GlobalPOWER® program for Members of Parliament and Cabinet Ministers in the Caribbean region – to build new partnerships that will last, across borders and over time, to combat trafficking of women and girls as a women’s human rights crisis. Click here to learn more about GlobalPOWER®!
GlobalPOWER® Caribbean will bring together women Members of Parliament and Ministers from throughout the Caribbean region. During their week together in Washington, DC, they will develop strategies and commitments to advance comprehensive anti-trafficking laws, policies, and programs and build on current government and NGO anti-trafficking efforts.
This is the perfect time for GlobalPOWER® Caribbean – because Governments in the region have paid increasing attention to trafficking in persons and many have passed anti-trafficking laws during the past decade. However, the US Department of State’s 2011 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report notes that implementation of these laws has been uneven and many trafficked persons are not being identified or provided services. Indeed, most countries in the Caribbean region lack a formal mechanism or guidelines to identify even the most vulnerable victims of trafficking.
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The Center will select GlobalPOWER® Caribbean participants from such countries as Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The women Parliamentarians and Ministers who participate GlobalPOWER® Caribbean will take leadership on this women’s human rights crisis in their own Parliaments – and in their constituencies -- to ensure that trafficked women and girls are properly identified and provided with the necessary protection and services.
Through GlobalPOWER®, the Center is doing something that no one else is doing - engaging women policy leaders as partners and advocates for women's human rights – and building policy partnerships that will last, across borders and over time, to combat violations of women’s human rights. Since the Center launched GlobalPOWER® in 2006, we have welcomed to Washington more than 50 women Members of Parliament and Ministers from 22 countries (in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas).
DONATE NOW to support GlobalPOWER® and the women Parliamentarians and Ministers who work tirelessly to ensure women's human rights worldwide.
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The Center's Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) designation code is #11963.
**Funding for this conference/publication was made possible by S-SGTIP-11-GR-0027 from the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of State nor does the mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
