Country Jamaica
Year 2006
Type of Measure Education > Formal education
Form of Violence Trafficking

Brief Description


The Bureau of Women's Affairs and the National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons have conducted the following public education sessions with a target audience including graduate and undergraduate students at Universities, public sector employees, students, women in urban and rural areas, domestic workers, teen mothers and their parents, police youth clubs, church leaders, and new Immigration Officers recruits:

  • 2006: 24 sessions, 2257 persons
  • 2007: 28 sessions - 1158 persons and
  • 2008: 17 sessions - 900 persons

Source of Information

Response of the Government of Jamaica to the questionnaire on violence against women