The Guyana Collectively marketing campaign ended its 2024 12 months of actions with an amplified name for decriminalisation of same-sex intimacy between consenting grownup males in personal.
This name was made by Lawyer-at-La and Associate on the legislation agency Cameron and Shepherd, Nikhil Ramkarran, on Wednesday as he addressed members of the Rotary Membership of Georgetown at their Human Rights Initiative held at Palm Court docket on Essential Road.
Addressing the necessity for legislation reform within the context of Worldwide Human Rights Day, Ramkarran pointed to the necessity for rights to be revered. “One in all these completely elementary rights, no matter whichever irrational prejudice of entitlement might inform your beliefs, is that every particular person is entitled to life free from prejudice,” Ramkarran declared. The lawyer referred to as on these gathered to recognise that every one individuals are “created equal and every entitled to sure rights with out debate or dissent,” as he identified that “that is unequivocal and can’t be debated by any rational particular person.”
Ramkarran additionally referred to as for the top to prejudice that not solely denies residents the popularity of their rights but additionally punishes them. “It’s prejudice to punish an individual for a attribute that they don’t select for themselves,” Ramkarran identified, “which doesn’t trigger hurt to a different.” Ramkarran described these prejudices as unacceptable. “We should recognise our susceptibility to prejudices and get rid of them individually and collectively,” he demanded.
On December 10, 1948 the United Nations Basic Meeting adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That Common Declaration units out a broad vary of elementary rights and freedoms to which all are entitled, and it ensures these freedoms with out distinction primarily based on who you’re, the place you reside, what you do for work – and who you like. Because of this, the Guyana Collectively stays dedicated to making sure that our homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and transgender buddies and neighbours in Guyana are handled with the respect and dignity all of us deserve.
Reflecting on the marketing campaign’s 12 months of achievements, Managing Director of SASOD Guyana, Joel Simpson, highlighted the marketing campaign’s three video tales to this point which have collectively garnered greater than three million views and have been aired on native tv newscasts and stations. These movies function allies who’re household and buddies of a lesbian, homosexual man and a transgender man, who all have benefited from their love and assist.
Simpson stated too that the marketing campaign has seen greater than 100 endorsements from Guyanese companies and native organisations and has seen scores of pledges from people, together with members of the Rotary Membership of Georgetown.
Launched in September 2023 by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Trade, the Black Entrepreneurs Affiliation, the Guyana Press Affiliation and SASOD Guyana, the Guyana Collectively marketing campaign is a grassroots, public schooling effort to extend respect and acceptance, and scale back stigma and prejudice in opposition to LGBTQ Guyanese.
