State failure on safe spaces

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Roberta Clarke’s analysis highlights a gap between Trinidad and Tobago’s relatively complete domestic-violence laws and their implementation. Cultural norms and institutional failures are described as undermining the response system and access to safe spaces.

Roberta Clarke’s analysis of this country’s domestic violence response system touches a core paradox: the legal framework is relatively complete, but there is a systemic rupture at the implementation level. And this rupture is the product of cultural norms, institutional…