A Caribbean Writer Fights Gender-Based Violence with Lit, Protests

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09 March 2023, 08:15

PARIS, Mar 08 (IPS) - For the past six years, Jamaican writer and scholar Opal Palmer Adisa has been one of the voices crying out against the prevalence of gender-based violence in the Caribbean and elsewhere. To highlight this human rights issue, she launched “Thursdays in Black” - holding public protests throughout the year and, on Thursdays, making use of social media to spread her message and raise awareness.

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