Six questions for Human Rights Day in Guyana

Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan

Human rights constitute the glue that can hold societies together world-wide, especially diverse societies like Guyana. Human rights strategies of governance can help the world negotiate new challenges, such as climate change, environmental damage and mass movement of people across borders.

After the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December, 1948, it decided that on this day every year the world should celebrate the rights in the Declaration and recommit to their universal implementation. The aim was to entrench a universal culture of human rights.