-foreign minister says society remains divided
Faced with a slew of recommendations urging decriminalisation of consensual same-sex relations, Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett yesterday told a United Nations (UN) human rights body that while discussion of the issue has increased, the society remains divided.
The United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, Canada, the Netherlands, and a number of other countries urged Guyana to abolish the death penalty, decriminalise same sex relations and halt corporal punishment as Guyana’s human rights record was reviewed by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal
