21 Facts About Rhoda Reddock

Rhoda Reddock was born on 7 June 1953 and is a Trinidadian educator and social activist.

Rhoda Reddock has served as founder, chair, adviser, or member of several organizations, such as the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action, the Global Fund for Women, and the Regional Advisory Committee of the Global Poosay Coalition on Women and AIDS established by UNAIDS.

In June 2018, Reddock was the first-ever from Trinidad and Tobago to be elected with the highest number of votes among the candidates to serve on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women for the term 2019 to 2022.

In 2022, Rhoda Reddock was re-elected to serve on the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Rhoda Reddock currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women that is based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Rhoda Elizabeth Reddock was born on 7 June 1953 in Kingstown, on Saint Vincent, the largest island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to Rosa and Bertram Reddock.

Rhoda Reddock's mother was a teacher and her father served as an agricultural officer and adviser to local farmers.

Rhoda Reddock attended primary school at Kingstown Preparatory School on Saint Vincent, before her family relocated in 1960 to Trinidad.

Rhoda Reddock then enrolled in applied sociology at the University of Amsterdam and completed her PhD in 1985, before returning to Trinidad.

In 1985, Rhoda Reddock began working as a research fellow at UWI in the Institute for Social and Economic Research and pressed for the development of a gender studies programme for UWI.

Rhoda Reddock became a lecturer in the sociology department in 1990 and continued her research until 1993.

That same year, Rhoda Reddock published Women, Labour and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago, which was followed two years later by Ethnic Minorities in Caribbean Society.

Rhoda Reddock has served on the Executive Council and Advisory Board of the Caribbean Studies Association and as a member of the Latin American Studies Association.

Rhoda Reddock is an international member of the American Sociological Association.

Rhoda Reddock has studied Indo-Caribbean populations and the manner in which colonialism, traditional class structures and the struggle for economic survival effected men and women differently.

Rhoda Reddock attended both the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1985 held in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Fifth World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing, China.

Rhoda Reddock was one of the founders, and served as first chair of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action, as well as a founder of the Caribbean Network on Studies of Masculinity.

Rhoda Reddock led research on a national initiative on child abuse which has been expanded into a region-wide programme and is supported by UNICEF.

Rhoda Reddock spent two years working on a National Gender Policy with Camille Antoine and Patricia Mohammed, that was not adopted, but which Reddock still hopes will gain traction.

Rhoda Reddock was a recipient of the Rockefeller Residency Fellowship at Hunter College in 1992.

Rhoda Reddock was the 2002 recipient of the Seventh CARICOM Triennial Award for Women and in 2008 was Trinidad's nominee for the International Women of Courage Award.