Risk factors for IPV in the Caribbean reproduce the classic pattern see elsewhere: the importance of early childhood exposure to violence, harmful alcohol use, and poverty as drivers of violence as well as gender inequality.

New data on IPV from 5 Caribbean countries finds once again how few abused women reach out to formal services. We must train mothers and friends—the “first responders” how to support women appropriately. @prevention-collaborative.org

Just terrifying how much more of this there is going to be Can't live near mountains, can't live near coasts, can't live near forests, can't live near rivers - where's everyone going to live?

Important article demanding that the UK government does not abandon it historic leadership role supporting gender equality, as threatened by the Foreign Minister

NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t... via @statnews.com

📣 Calling all #ParentingPractitioners Our new brief—co-developed with UNICEF and Equimundo— is designed to provide guidance on effectively monitoring and evaluating parenting programmes that integrate violence prevention and gender-transformative approaches.📊 📄Read today: https://cutt.ly/hrghTUjf

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

The slippery slope toward USG/DOGE interference with independent non-profits has begun. We must stay vigilant.

Important editorial by @jocalynclark.bsky.social in this month's BMJ. She notes: "On 8 March, international women’s day,the NewYork Times reported that even the word “women” was being erased by US policies..."