Suriname Symposium – 2014

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The NGO Caribbean Development Foundation (NCDF) held a symposium on Domestic violence in Suriname at the Torarica hotel on March 15th , 2014. The Symposium was advertised to the public and well attended by the Public.

A number of presentations were made at the symposium by some of the leading intellectuals, researchers and reach out workers in the field of Gender Based violence. Except for the presentation made by the Vice President of The NCDF, Witek Hebanowski, the presentations were made in Dutch, the official language of Suriname.

Presentations were made by :
Carla Bakboard of the Women’s Rights centre
Reginald Cairo of Man mit man
Denny Ristie of Universal Peace Foundation , Suriname

Witek-Suriname-205x300 — Witek Hebanowski , Vice President , The NGO Caribbean Development Foundation

IMG_1049-2-229x300 — Carol Daniel, President of the NGO Caribbean Development Foundation

foreign-commonwealth-office — The NGO Caribbean Development Foundation’s 2014 violence against women campaign is sponsored by The British Foreign Office.

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