A parliamentary committee will be set up to hold national consultations on proposals by the United Nations Human Rights Council for the country to abolish the death penalty, corporal punishment and decriminalise consensual same sex relations and discrimination against Lesbians, Gays, Bi-Sexual and Trans-gender (LGBT) persons.
A motion, which was moved by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds to follow-up on commitments made by the PPP/C administration to the United Nations Human Rights Council since 2010, was carried last Thursday in the National Assembly to submit the issues to a Special Select Committee.
According to the motion, the committee will seek to determine the attitude of Guyanese to corporal punishment and its possible abolition; capital punishment and its possible abolition; and changes in
