This publication, The Robert Carr Human Rights Advocacy Agenda, is dedicated to
the memory of Dr. Robert Carr, a tireless health and human rights activist who
devoted his life and career to securing the rights of vulnerable and
marginalized communities across the Caribbean and beyond.Read more...
This free
publication will be distributed monthly. It can be accessed on
our website or can be sent to you by e-mail after adding your
contact information to the distribution list.
Welcome to the CVC/COIN Vulnerable Groups Project website. This
site is currently under construction, but we are proud to share
with you the first edition of our
Newsletter, The Robert Carr Human Rights Advocacy Agenda.
“There will be no change in the law on buggery in
Antigua and Barbuda, at least not if I can help it.
Being gay is morally wrong, and to be honest personally,
I am still homophobic… I know they are going to ask me
this same question at the Human Rights United Nations
meeting I am attending, and I will give them the same
answer,” the Attorney General is reported to have said
to caribarena.com.Read more...
The CVC-COIN Vulnerable Groups Project is one of a few regional
projects which have secured fnding specifically to address the
structural barriers which prevent access to services and to
reduce HIV among socially marginalized populations, and through
it the newly formed team hopes to continue Robert Carr's legacy. Read more...
A groundbreaking
anonymous online study of the lives of men who have
sex with men (MSM) in the
English, French, Spanish and Dutch speaking Caribbean
is set for a November 10 2011 launch.
Read...
Reading the tributes to Robert I guess this most have
happened to him regularly: giving us the feeling,
"yes, - he is what we need!" Or maybe less strategic:
"he is special - I want to work with him" while at the
same time perhaps not even able to give this quality a
name.
Read...
Maurice Tomlinson, attorney-at-law for marginalised
groups at AIDS Free World, talks about this
Organization's petition at the Inter American Commitee
for Human Rights (IACHR) challenging the Jamaican
anti-sodomy law.
Read...
Social Justice Events for your diary
Our Partners Speak
Dates for your diary
is a list of upcoming events of interest to Caribbean
social justice activists and partners
in
TRINIDAD,
JAMAICA and the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
Please send details of forthcoming events to:
icruickshank@cvccoalition.org
If you
are an activist, community organization or partner working
with 'vulnerabilized' communities, we want to hear from you!
To help us improve our sharing of advocacy and programming
initiatives in the region, please send your stories in
English or Spanish to
icruickshank@cvccoalition.org
