AWARDS
Dr. Jason Haynes
Wins Prestigious UNESCO Award Dr. Jason Haynes, Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies and Research) in the Faculty of Law at Cave Hill, has become the first person in an English-speaking country to be awarded the prestigious UNESCO/Juan Bosch Prize for the Promotion of Social Science Research in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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irector-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, named the Senior Lecturer in Law as only the fourth laureate to be awarded the prize which is granted every two years for outstanding research in social science that contributes to strengthening links between research and public policies. The three previous awardees were from Columbia and Bolivia. Dr. Haynes’s body of work on human trafficking that dates back to 2012, along with submissions of other nominees, was assessed by an international jury which made the recommendation to the DirectorGeneral.
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“Sometimes you are nominated for things, but [you] aren’t quite sure that you will get through as you’re up against hundreds of other scholars. The fact that no person from an English-speaking country had won it before made it slightly daunting. However, I was confident in the quality of my work, and I thought that the international jury would at least have positive things to say about my work even if I didn’t win,” said Dr. Haynes who was notified of the award in late January. As a youth, Dr. Haynes’s interest in human trafficking was piqued by images of exploited men, women, girls, and boys portrayed in movies. He wanted to help but had no idea
how to go about doing that. He was further motivated while serving as an intern in the Office of the Attorney General in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 2011 when he got the opportunity to sit on a committee that reviewed the proposed Trafficking in Persons Act. “I was flabbergasted by the number of people who were subject to exploitation globally. I felt a strong sense that I ought to be a part of the fight against human trafficking, even if only to ensure that victims are identified and protected. I was like, ‘I’m going to write a research proposal on this’. I was at Cave Hill finishing my undergraduate degree in 2011
