Daily Archives: March 4, 2021

The Women’s Caucus pledge zero tolerance to violence and sexual harassment in the work place

The Caucus reached out to civil society groups including trade unions from various sectors including the free trade zone workers, plantation sector workers to name a few, to hear their stories and experiences on sexual harassment in the workplace. These members of the diverse communities of women workers provided testimonials that supported a qualitative study…

What we did as a Caucus of 12 women MPs of the Ninth Parliament during the budget debate 2021

During the recent budget debate in November 2020, the Women’s Caucus of the Ninth Parliament, took the lead to aggressively debate the issue of Period Poverty in Parliament. They had round table meetings to discuss the issues surrounding period poverty and addressed the State Minister in charge to protest this taxation, and alternatively proposing that…