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Too few cases of sexual assault make it to the courts despite millions of women around the world becoming victims every year. Why is it that attacks go unpunished, asks Commonwealth Correspondent Genitta Pascal, a 19-year-old from the Caribbean island of St Lucia? According to the United Nations, sexual abuse is defined as the actual …

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Too few cases of sexual assault make it to the courts despite millions of women around the world becoming victims every year. Why is it that attacks go unpunished, asks Commonwealth Correspondent Genitta Pascal, a 19-year-old from the Caribbean island of St Lucia? According to the United Nations, sexual abuse is defined as the actual …

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Grenada is full of too many armchair moralists – those who condemn youths without demonstrating an active interest in empowering and educating them, writes Craig Dixon, a 23-year-old Jamaican Commonwealth Correspondent living in Grenada. The rampant decadence of youth is Grenada’s most visible secret. Young people are entangled in a widening web of despair, depravity …

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Grenada is full of too many armchair moralists – those who condemn youths without demonstrating an active interest in empowering and educating them, writes Craig Dixon, a 23-year-old Jamaican Commonwealth Correspondent living in Grenada. The rampant decadence of youth is Grenada’s most visible secret. Young people are entangled in a widening web of despair, depravity …

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With financial strains facing both Britain and the United States, perhaps it would be cheaper to defend against threats on home soil rather than abroad, writes Ryan Bachoo, a  21-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from Trinidad and Tobago. There are damning indicators that suggest Britain’s business of war in the Middle East may be coming to a quick and …

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With financial strains facing both Britain and the United States, perhaps it would be cheaper to defend against threats on home soil rather than abroad, writes Ryan Bachoo, a  21-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from Trinidad and Tobago. There are damning indicators that suggest Britain’s business of war in the Middle East may be coming to a quick and …

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In Barbados, as in many other countries, sexual harrassment in the workplace remains a serious problem. Leigh Ann-Worrell, a 23-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from St Thomas interviews three women about their own personal experiences. Sexual harassment. It is possibly one of my biggest pet peeves. On the receiving end or not, it incenses me. However, there is something …

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In Barbados, as in many other countries, sexual harrassment in the workplace remains a serious problem. Leigh Ann-Worrell, a 23-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from St Thomas interviews three women about their own personal experiences. Sexual harassment. It is possibly one of my biggest pet peeves. On the receiving end or not, it incenses me. However, there is something …

"Do I report him? If so, to whom? And will he know it's me?" Read More »

Progress towards a National Youth Policy for Guyana is painfully slow despite the opportunity created by the United Nations’ International Year of Youth, writes 27-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent Mark Anthony Ross. It’s almost the end of the International Year of Youth 2010-2011, a year which was designated by the United Nations General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/64/134 under the …

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Progress towards a National Youth Policy for Guyana is painfully slow despite the opportunity created by the United Nations’ International Year of Youth, writes 27-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent Mark Anthony Ross. It’s almost the end of the International Year of Youth 2010-2011, a year which was designated by the United Nations General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/64/134 under the …

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