Guyana will be among former British colonies in the region that will be asked to repeal laws criminalising homosexuality at next week’s biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), in Perth, Australia.
The call is based on a recommendation from a Commonwealth advisory group and is intended to address HIV-infection rates in Common-wealth countries, which are double the figures in non-Commonwealth countries.
Guyana has already committed at the level of the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold consultations on