Excerpt and Photo from antiguaobserver.com
Powerful female leaders arrived at the Nelson’s Dockyard on Saturday morning, having made the trek from the far reaches of the world—some as far as Fiji and other islands in the Pacific — for a Gender Equality Forum, sharing the experiences of small islands’ populations.
The two-day forum addressed a plethora of issues from how promoting a gender equal society could act as an accelerator in boosting small island developing economies to the role of businesses, parliaments, and civil society organisations in creating gender equal societies.
The Bahamas’ Senator Dr Erecia Hepburn-Forbes gave an enthralling summary of the first day’s proceedings, encapsulating the audience with her infectious personality and poignant sense of humour.
“With everybody that got up on this stage, I found salient points, and they called this an Equality Village because that is what we are trying to generate now—a gender equality village and we are all participants in this village,”Dr Hepburn-Forbes remarked.