For any claim to inclusivity in decision-making to be meaningful, a robust challenge to elite capture of the Guyanese State is needed, so said the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) in a press release on Friday.
The most significant civic achievement in this respect, says the release, came in the form of securing inclusion of Article 13 in the Constitutional Reform process of 2001. The reality, however, is that governments, despite the constitutional weight of Article 13, have continued to be disdainful of civil society as a sector.