On the oc­ca­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions’ In­ter­na­tion­al Day for the Elim­i­na­tion of Vi­o­lence Against Women and Girls, Trinre In­sur­ance stood unit­ed with the rest of the world in con­demn­ing all forms of vi­o­lence against women and girls.

In a show of its sup­port for the cause, Trinre made a do­na­tion to the Shel­ter for Bat­tered Women and Chil­dren in com­mem­o­ra­tion of the oc­ca­sion, which is cel­e­brat­ed on No­vem­ber 25 an­nu­al­ly.

In a me­dia re­lease, Trinre said gen­der-based vi­o­lence in any form vi­o­lates fun­da­men­tal hu­man rights, and the dev­as­tat­ing im­pact is felt not on­ly by the vic­tims but by fam­i­lies, com­mu­ni­ties, and so­ci­ety.  

It said in Sep­tem­ber 2024, the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and the Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs host­ed pub­lic con­sul­ta­tions on do­mes­tic vi­o­lence. It not­ed that the sta­tis­tics showed a con­sis­tent in­crease in the num­ber of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence re­ports over the past five years. As­sault by beat­ing stood out as the high­est re­port­ed of­fence, with 528 re­ports made in 2019, 2,646 re­ports in 2023, and 1,227 as of Au­gust 2024. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, T&T has on av­er­age 30 do­mes­tic vi­o­lence-re­lat­ed mur­ders per year. 

Trinre said these alarm­ing fig­ures un­der­score the ur­gent need for ac­tion to pre­vent and re­spond to gen­der-based vi­o­lence. It not­ed that vi­o­lence against women and girls takes many forms, in­clud­ing do­mes­tic vi­o­lence, sex­u­al ha­rass­ment and traf­fick­ing. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, in this age of ad­vanced tech­nol­o­gy, so­cial me­dia has al­so fa­cil­i­tat­ed var­i­ous forms of on­line vi­o­lence, in­clud­ing cy­ber ha­rass­ment and bul­ly­ing, cy­ber stalk­ing, on­line gen­der-based hate speech, and im­age-based sex­u­al abuse, which in­flicts psy­cho­log­i­cal harm and threat­ens the safe­ty of women and girls.  

Trinre point­ed out that Unit­ed Na­tions deputy sec­re­tary gen­er­al Am­i­na Mo­hammed has point­ed out that ad­dress­ing this per­va­sive is­sue re­quires a mul­ti-faceted ap­proach. She fur­ther stat­ed that in­vest­ment in pre­ven­tion, “means cre­at­ing con­di­tions where women and girls can thrive, un­bur­dened by the fear of vi­o­lence.” The com­pa­ny said it is, there­fore, every­one’s re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to speak out against gen­der-based vi­o­lence and de­mand more from those in au­thor­i­ty to save the lives of women and girls.   

An im­por­tant al­ly in this fight is men, who must hold them­selves and their fel­low men ac­count­able, Trinre said. They must be role mod­els to young men for healthy emo­tion­al ex­pres­sion and cham­pi­on pos­i­tive at­ti­tudes to­wards women and girls. With their sup­port, Trinre said T&T stands a greater chance of win­ning this fight.   

Trinre said recog­ni­tion must al­so be giv­en to or­gan­i­sa­tions like the Shel­ter for Bat­tered Women and Chil­dren, who, de­spite their lim­it­ed re­sources, con­tin­ue to pro­vide sup­port and a safe haven to vic­tims.  

Trinre’s mar­ket­ing and cus­tomer ex­pe­ri­ence man­ag­er, Vinai Narace stat­ed, “Trinre re­mains firm­ly com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing tan­gi­ble sup­port to these or­gan­i­sa­tions.”

He added, “We all have a role to play in fos­ter­ing a cul­ture of re­spect, equal­i­ty, and safe­ty for every­one. It is time to move be­yond words and take con­crete ac­tions that en­sure no woman or girl lives in fear of vi­o­lence.”