The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) says it is disturbed by the absence of any meaningful effort to implement constitutional reform, saying efforts so far have been token.
Recalling that the APNU+AFC coalition had prior to national elections in 2015, made a “prominent commitment” to implement constitutional reform, the GHRA in expressing its disappointment at the lack of movement, said that “efforts with respect to constitutional reform to date have been token, lacking ambition, monopolized by lawyers and bereft of broad-based legitimacy.”
The statement came after the GHRA held its 24th Members General Meeting last Monday. The human rights organisation also expressed concern about other issues. In relation to women’s rights, which it described as unquestionably the most serious human rights issue in Guyana, the GHRA said that an imposing catalogue of progressive legislation co-exists with a far less impressive level of implementation.
