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Published 2 September 2025

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The ECAWJ

The ECAWJ is an association of female judicial officers who serve or have retired as judges, masters, magistrates, registrars, court administrators and persons appointed or serving in a judicial or adjudicatory capacity including members of tribunals, boards, commissions or similar judicial or adjudicatory body.

The main objective of the Association is to promote greater understanding and a better resolution of legal issues facing women, and issues concerning female judicial officers. Issues such as gender based violence are known to impact women significantly and the Association therefore sees itself as playing a vital role in educating our women and the general populace on the scourge of gender based violence which has plagued our region for so long.

This year in celebration of International Day of Women Judges and Internation Women’s Day, The ECAWJ hosted a panel discussion titled ‘Hard Talk-Gender Based Violence-Beyond Physical’ which focused on forms of gender based violence other than the traditional physical abuse which we know all too well.

Objective of the GBV competition

The ECAWJ creative competition on GBV is for students between the ages of 11 and 18 years old across the nine member States and Territories of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. The winner of the ECAWJ GBV Competition will then be submitted as our representative to a regional competition hosted by the Caribbean Association of Women Judges (CAWJ).

The CAWJ hopes to capture the work with the consent of the creatives to be used as public service announcements (PSAs) to bring greater awareness over social media and to be used for the “16 Days of Activism against GBV” in 2025, which is scheduled to start on 25th November 2025.

Date

The deadline date for submission to the ECAWJ Competition is 20th September 2025. The deadline for submission of our winner to the CAWJ is 15th October 2025.

Target Age Group

Court.

Students ages 11 – 18 across the nine Member States and Territories of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme

Judges Marking criteria

Visual arts Performing Arts

Creativity and originality Unique and innovative

Offers a fresh perspective or concept

Unique and innovative

Offers a fresh perspective or concept

Theme interpretation Clear communication and interpretation of the theme GBV

Clear communication and interpretation of the theme GBV

Presentation Quality of the images

submitted, framing, use of

colour, technique and

craftsmanship

Stage presence,

clarity of delivery,

mastery of technique, timing,

flowRULES FOR THE PARTICIPANTS

1. Participants must be between the ages of 11 and 18. You are to submit a copy of either your birth certificate or your passport bio page with your submission.

2. Participants may submit a creative piece using any form of creative expression in the visual or performing arts.

a. Visual arts includes use of any medium such as drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, digital art or mixed media

b. Performing arts includes portrayals using sound or body across any discipline such as poetry, music, drama, spoken word or dance

3. The piece must be the participant’s original work that was not used in other competitions. Plagiarism or use of AI will result in disqualification.

4. The piece must depict the theme “Gender based violence; Violence against women and girls stops here.”

5. Participants shall submit a recording of their performance, video file or high-resolution image photograph of physical work via email to the email address: ecscwomen22@gmail.com with the caption GBV Creative competition. The body of the email must contain the participant’s

(i) name, (ii) age, (iii) school and (iv) the title of the piece. If the recording is too large to send via email, a link to a google drive may be submitted with open access. Performances must not exceed 5 minutes. The panel reserves the right to request physical submissions of the visual arts pieces.

6. All entries must be submitted on or before 20th September 2025 at 4 pm. Late submissions will

not be accepted.

7. The judging criteria is

– creativity and originality,

– theme interpretation, and

– presentation

8. Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd 3rd places by the ECAWJ

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