violence and abuse Archives

U-Report recently polled young Jamaicans on their views about fears of a potential increase in domestic abuse due to stay-at-home conditions during COVID-19, and to ask their advice to inform a project for the Spotlight Initiative – a partnership between the United Nations, the European Union and the Government of Jamaica to reduce… Read more →←

Photograph of Father Ian ‘Cowfoot’ Salmon together with his two sons Jevontae, aged 16 (left) and Devontae, aged 13 in their community of Mountain View, St Andrew.

Safety and justice

By Ian 'Cowfoot' Salmon

Why as a daddy I choose talking not beating

The reason I believe in talking to my children … beating doesn’t work! Sometimes when you beat them, you beat them with anger, you beat them with vengeance, and when you tell yourself that you’re licking them here on the arm, it might catch them in the eye – scrape them, leave bruises, welts, marks and all those things. Talking… Read more →←

fight for peace jamaica

Safety and justice

By Ross Sheil

Fight for Peace: knocking out youth violence in Jamaica

“Calm down! Calm down! Remember what I told you: control!” yells Fight for Peace trainer Bali Khuman, as a smiling 12-year-old rains down excess energy on the boxing pads at a session in downtown Kingston. If the name ‘Fight for Peace’ sounds like a contradiction in terms, that’s because it is. The idea is based upon the… Read more →←

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Young Jamaicans respond to domestic abuse in COVID-19

Young Jamaicans respond to domestic abuse in COVID-19

Why as a daddy I choose talking not beating

Why as a daddy I choose talking not beating

Fight for Peace: knocking out youth violence in Jamaica

Fight for Peace: knocking out youth violence in Jamaica

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