NASSAU, Bahamas – Amnesty International will today launch a campaign against domestic violence in the Caribbean.
Radio ads will be played in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Grenada, and Barbados for a week, the London-based human rights organisation said yesterday in the Bahamas.
In the recordings, a man and a woman appeal to the listener to think about the pain inflicted on women, and a narrator makes comments about women who have been abused, beaten and raped.
Bob Marley’s No Woman No Cry is used as background music. Another version using the song Stay Away by Jamaican reggae artist Luciano will be released early next year, Amnesty said.
The radio campaign will begin on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
In the Bahamas, there have been 85 reported cases of rape this year. At least half of the victims knew the assailant, police said. Last year, 111 rapes were reported in the former British colony of 300,000 residents.
Bahamian police said they had no figures for domestic violence and Amnesty did not provide any statistics for the Caribbean.
The Jamaica Observer
