The Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Mona Unit, hosts the Fifth Biennial Lucille Mathurin Mair Public Lecture, which commemorates The International Day Against Violence Against Women 2006. This event will be held on Wednesday, November 29 at 5:30pm at The Undercroft, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.

The Hon. Madame Justice Desiree Bernard O.R., C.C.H, the first female judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice of the Caribbean Court of Justice, will deliver the Lecture which is entitled “Confronting Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean.”