The girl child and boys in the Caribbean: progress and challenges

This issue of Gender Dialogue focuses attention on the status of the girl child in the Caribbean and examines the ongoing progress and challenges in fulfilment of international mandates such as the Beijing Platform for Action, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Millennium Development Goals and other relevant commitments..--The Girl Child and Boys in the Caribbean: Progress and Challenges The Caribbean situation.--Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC).--Progress and reporting in the Caribbean.--The age of Majority.--Corporal Punishment.--Gender and Human Rights.--Child abuse in the Caribbean— From the media.-- Child Labour.--Upcoming Events.--In the New