{"id":87558,"date":"2013-03-08T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=87558"},"modified":"2013-03-09T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T16:36:55","slug":"look-out-for-each-other-boyd-knights-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/general\/look-out-for-each-other-boyd-knights-to-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Look out for each other – Boyd-Knights to women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chairman of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians and Speaker of the House of Assembly, Alix Boyd-Knights, is calling on women in Dominica to look out for each other as International Women’s Day is observed today.<\/p>\n

She is also proposing legislation that will make it easier for perpetrators of violence against women and girls to be brought to justice.<\/p>\n

“I am appealing to Dominican women in particular to recognize that we are our sister’s keeper,” she told DNO in an interview. “And when we know of abusive situations of our neighbours, the Domestic Violence Act allows anybody who knows of such an action against a victim to go and make the first report to the police so that so they can look into it.”<\/p>\n

She said Dominica has had domestic violence legislation for some time now, however, they are not as effective as they should be.<\/p>\n

She said the two pieces of legislation that have to do with violence against women, the Sexual Offenses Act and the Domestic Violence Act, lack the built-in enforcement mechanisms to make them effective.<\/p>\n

“For example the Sexual Offenses Act says the age of consent is 16,” Boyd-Knights said. “So you ask yourself if a 14-year-old appears in the hospital to have a baby and you have some proof that some kind of offense was committed against that act, whose responsibility it is to call the police? Who is going to let the authorities know that a crime has been committed against that child? None. And this is where the act is lacking.”<\/p>\n

She also pointed out that the Sexual Offenses Act does not address women who knowingly allow their children, especially girls, to be sexually abused for financial reasons and the like. “Should she (the mother) not be made under that law a culpable as the man?” she asked.<\/p>\n

Boyd-Knights also noted that Domestic Violence Act does not deal with law enforcement officials who fail to act when reports are made by abused women. “There should be in the act where the police officer having been informed of a situation of abuse and he does not act, he himself has to be sanctioned,” she argued.<\/p>\n

She said it is always difficult for a victim to pursue her perpetrator from a criminal perspective and she is proposing what she calls “Let the Pocket Pay.”<\/p>\n

“Encompassed in this proposal is the acknowledgement of the difficulties encountered in obtaining a conviction against an alleged perpetrator of violence against a woman or girl, the recognition that it may be easier and more practical to pursue the civil route of litigation against such an alleged perpetrator whereby the victim sues him civilly, with the attendant standard of proof for civil matters.”she said in her message to mark International Women’s Day.<\/p>\n

She pointed out that legislation for such a proposal would of necessity include: “state provided legal aid to victims wishing to pursue this route; substantial financial compensation to victims from the perpetrators; where an alleged perpetrator, has admitted culpability so wishes, and the victim agrees, a mediation framework be established to determine the level of compensation to be paid as well as mandatory remedial counseling for the perpetrator at his own cost.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, at at a public forum held on Thursday night as part of activities to observe International Women’s Day, teachers were called upon to intervene in the classroom in an early attempt to minimize the breeding of violence in the society.<\/p>\n

“How do we change the mindset of our young men … how many teachers are here today? These are the type of people who can make inroads into situations like that and these are the people who are with the children for six to eight hours a day,” Counselor and CARIMAN representative, Lester Guye, said.<\/p>\n

The theme for this year’s observation of International Women’s Day is \u201cA promise is a promise: time for action to end violence against women.\u201d<\/p>\n

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