Bridgetown.
There is a increase of domestic violence during the Christmas Season says director of the Bureau of Gender Affairs Patrica Hackett -Codrington.
According to Hackett-Codrington, the Christmas Season is the time of the year when a wife or girlfriend might request or demand more money and as a result, some men resort to violence to stand their ground.
Hackett-Codrington said some women identified domestic violence as physical abuse but emotional abuse was also an an aspect of gender based violence. In addition, she added human trafficking was also a form of gender violence.
"It is largely women and children who are trafficked; girls are sent into prostitution and women come to do one thing and end up in prostitution or domestic servitude", Hackett-Codrington said.
She noted that there was another aspect of gender violence which was not often discussed and that was men on men violence or gang violence.
