The Rights of Children (ROC) group held a ‘Roc-A-Thon’ on Sunday to share ideas to commemorate ‘International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women’.
In a press release the group said despite the rainy weather about 400-500 people, predominantly secondary school students, attended the session. ROC members Geran Collymore of School of the Nations and Larry Carryl of Queen’s College chaired the programme. In his address, Carryl told the audience, “Schools have to start looking at how to guide students to form and maintain meaningful relationships and that aggression, obsession and intimidation of any sort should not happen and should not be tolerated.” In addition, Collymore noted that teachers, parents and administrations need to be trained in recognising when boundaries have breached by sexual harassment.
In addition, in her presentation ROC Co-Coordinator Teshanna Cox noted that “Women and girls spend a good part of the day listening to stupid remarks from men” whether they are in offices, stores or schools. She then told the audience that