Civic groups urge greater child protection

Four civil society groups are calling on all Guyanese to play their role in protecting children’s rights, end discrimination against children based on sexual orientation, gender identity and other grounds and provide access to comprehensive sex and sexuality education.

“It is by removing barriers related to sexuality and gender like these, which impede children’s rights that social justice will be advanced in Guyana,” said Red Thread, Artistes In Direct Support (AIDS), Family Awareness Conscious Together (FACT) and the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), which contributed a joint submission on sexuality and gender issues