AMERICAN actress, singer, songwriter and fashion designer Amanda Leigh \u201cMandy\u201d Moore has added her voice to the fight against gender-based violence in TT. The actress whose movie credits include A Walk to Remember, Princess Diaries 2, Candy, Mandy Moore has been on a week-long visit to further the cause of ending gender-based violence.<\/b><\/p>\n
Moore along with Indrani Goradia, founder of Indrani\u2019s Light Foundation, through the Population Services International (PSI), a social marketing organisation, advocated last week for the end of gender-based violence in TT. The organisation celebrated its tenth anniversary.<\/p>\n
In one-on-one interviews with the media, Goradia called for an end to corporal punishment in homes and in its entirety.<\/p>\n
She said, when asked about breaking corporal punishment in homes, \u201cFirst of all, we have to know it is not culture, it is criminal. It is criminal to hit another human being and the only way to break it is for everyone in this room, and everyone who will read from your magazine and newspaper to go to their families and say hey listen, this used to be what I am doing. I am going to do something differently.\u201d<\/p>\n