Since the establishment of the Gender and Development Desk at the CARICOM Secretariat there has engaged in public education through the preparation and publication of pamphlets, books and monographs on various aspects of women’s experiences in the Caribbean by various gender experts in the Region. These include:

•  A Framework and Recommendations for Action on Children Affected by Migration in the Caribbean (CARICOM/IOM/UNICEF, 2010)

• Gender Equality in the Caribbean: Reality or Illusion / ed. Gemma Tang Nain and Barbara Bailey (Jamaica: IRP, 2003).

This book is a collection of essays by several Caribbean gender experts on the situation of women in the Region in the period since the Beijing Conference of 1995 to 2000/1.

• CARICOM Plan Of Action To 2005: Framework For Mainstreaming Gender Into Key CARICOM Programmes

• Women and Family in the Caribbean: Historical and Contemporary Considerations with special reference to Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago / ed. Rhoda Reddock (Guyana: Red Thread, 1999)

• Gender Equality, Social Justice and Development: the CARICOM Post-Beijing Regional Plan of Action to the Year 2000. CARICOM Secretariat, 1997.

• CARICOM Model Legislation on Citizenship, Domestic Violence, Equality for Women in Employment, Equal Pay, Inheritance, Maintenance and Maintenance Orders, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Offences (Guyana: Red Thread Women’s Press: 1997)

• Towards Equity in Development : A Report on the Status of Women in sixteen Commonwealth Caribbean Countries / Alicia Mondesire and Leith Dunn (1995)

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