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also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Trinidad and Tobago This category exists only as a container for other categories of Trinidad and Tobago women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
In Trinidad and Tobago, women and girls experience domestic violence, incest, rape and other forms of sexual violence and abuse to a degree that is staggering and almost common-place. Domestic violence-related homicide are second only to gang murders as the leading non-medical-related cause of death for women.
The Coterie would be the leading women's rights organization for middle-class women in Trinidad and Tobago from the 1920s to the 1940s. [ 9 ] In 1936, the Coterie hosted a conference in Port of Spain and invited social workers from throughout the British West Indies and British Guiana .
Influenced during her schooling by Beatrice Greig, a white activist, but one who spoke about the empowerment of Indo-Trinidadian women, [5] Ramkeesoon became involved in the Cedros Bees, in 1926. The group was a mentoring program for young girls. After her marriage, as the wife of a clergyman, she was required to assist in parish activities.
Lisa Allen Agostini at TEDxYouth@QueensParkSavannah", 22 November 2013 (YouTube video). BC Pires, "The novel Miss Allen knead" (interview), Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 24 May 2021. Janine Mendes-Franco, "Lisa Allen-Agostini, shortlisted for the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction, was born to be a 'Trinidad writer ' ", Global Voices, 15 May 2022.
Brown and 13 others founded the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women in 1985, an umbrella organisation for non-governmental organisations that focus on women's issues. [5] It was formed to present the position of women in Trinidad and Tobago at the 1985 World Conference on Women in Nairobi. [3]
Trinidad and Tobago, [a] officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean.Consisting of main islands Trinidad and Tobago and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated 12 kilometres (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 nautical miles) northeast off the coast of Venezuela, 129 kilometres (70 nautical miles) south of Grenada, and west of Barbados.
The Girl Guides Association of Trinidad and Tobago is the national Guiding organization of Trinidad and Tobago. It serves 3,065 members (as of 2003). It serves 3,065 members (as of 2003). Founded in 1914, the girls-only organization became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1963.