-says religious organizations have role to play
Welcoming the United Nations designation of October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, with 2012 being dedicated to ending child marriages, GHRA says under-age marriage should be rare and religious organizations here can play a pivotal role in assuring this.
It also said that society still fails to see the links between the continued abuse of girls and the failure to put legislation into operation to protect them.
The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) said it is sobering to think that the protection of the ‘girl child’ to date has been less of a priority than a catalogue of other good causes. In a press release it noted that the usefulness of the UN declaration is a reminder that society needs to be continually vigilant over the commercial exploitation of sex in all its forms. Guyana has a good record on modern legislation including domestic violence, sexual offences, termination of pregnancy
