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Help & Shelter salutes all women on International Women's Day 2003.
The UN Secretary General notes in his International Women's Day message that “When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life”. International Women's Day is used to celebrate the achievements of women around the world and to draw attention to the issues which prevent women from thriving.
Help & Shelter’s work has highlighted the level of violence which many women endure in their homes, year in and year out. During the past year, however, innumerable women in Guyana have been deprived of even the possibility of thriving not only by violence in the home but by the non-domestic criminal violence which has overwhelmed the country since February 2002.
Help & Shelter deplores all violence, whatever its motivation and whoever its perpetrators. Our mission to contribute to bringing about a society in which attitudes to the use of violence have been transformed now has more relevance than ever, and we add our voice to those now raised in the call for an end to violence and for those who have perpetrated it to be punished according to law.
On this, International Women’s Day 2003, we recommit ourselves to playing our part to make Guyana a place in which women can thrive.
Help & Shelter
8 March 2003