Civil society groups call for protection of girls, minorities at OAS human rights hearing

A contingent of four organisations representing the Guyana Equality Forum (GEF) made presentations on discrimination in the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights in Guyana at the 154th session of hearings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on March 20, in Washington, DC.

The groups representing the GEF were the Sisterhood of Support, Services and Sustainability (S4) Foundation, the Guyana Organisation of Indigenous Peoples (GOIP), the Deaf Association of Guyana (DAG) and the Society against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), while Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett