Country Suriname
Year 2016 - 2017
Type of Measure Justice > Training
Form of Violence Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence

Brief Description


In order to increase awareness on gender and domestic violence, the Bureau of Gender Affairs has trained around 400 civil servants of the Ministry of Home Affairs (permanent secretary/ deputy directors/ policy advisors/ policy officials, heads of bureaus/ divisions and other personnel) in gender and gender related violence/ domestic violence during January 2016 – June 2017.

Source of Information

Suriname's submission for National Review for Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, Beijing+25, 2019, p.36