Although government says it is committed to the protection of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) community, it has informed the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that “much more” has to be done on an approach towards prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as repealing laws that criminalize homosexuality.
As a result, the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) says the APNU+AFC administration has failed to deliver on its two-year-old manifesto promise to put measures in place, including those that do not require amendments of the laws, in order to protect those marginalized because of their sexual orientation.
“I am glad the government remembers and they should be reminded that they haven’t delivered two years later,” SASOD Managing Director Joel Simpson told Stabroek News yesterday in a