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Special Envoy: Advocacy Can Only Go So Far
posted (March 5, 2018)
The Prime Minister's Wife and Special Envoy For Women and Children Kim Barrow joined the protestors in the park today. She says the problem is deeper than this terrible case suggests - but advocacy isn't enough to end it:

Kim Simplis-Barrow, Special Envoy for Women and Children
"My office is an advocacy office and I do everything in my power to advocate for women and children, it is not a solution to everything, not everything I do will solve our issues, it will take all of us. It will take our police officers, our judicial system, our media, our teachers, ultimately, at the end of the day it begins at home and it ends in the home. Our mothers have to be more vigilant when it comes to our girls and our boys, this has been happening for years. We have given voice to these issues, that is why this is happening, that is why we know about this today because our doctors are finally calling it what it is and reporting it. How many of our children have died like this and we didn't know why."

Many other groups sent out releases condemning the violence against children today - and we'll have that later on in the news.

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