Dear Editor,
As a follow up to our letter of earlier this week for an investigation into sexual harassment allegations aganist Senior Superintendent Fazil Karimbaksh, we are further calling for an independent investigation of the allegations of sexual harassment brought against the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Mr. Paul Slowe. We reiterate that the many recent reports of sexual misconduct including rape and sexual exploitation committed by serving members of security forces and these most recent allegations against men in high authority are cause for great concern. We also reiterate our calls for a thorough and far reaching review of policies and practices which are a contributing factor towards sexual and gender-based violence among Guyana’s security forces, for sexual harassment legislation to be drafted and enacted as soon as possible and for policies against sexual harassment to be swiftly introduced into all public and private sector workplaces, agencies, labour unions, schools, faith based organizations, sport organizations, media and educational institutions, NGOs and CSOs .
Sincerely,
Help & Shelter- Pamela Nauth &
Gaitrie
Shivsankar
Blossom Inc. – Ayo Dalgety-Dean
Red Thread – Susan Collymore &
Halima Khan
Institute of Gender Studies (IGS) –
Director, Dr.
Pauline Bullen
SASOD – Joel Simpson & Mishka
Puran
Caribbean Family Planning
Affiliation – CEO, Rev.
Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth
ChildLink – Omattie Madray
Danuta Radzik
Alissa Trotz
Vanda Radzik
Josephine Whitehead
Carol Innis-Baptiste
Vidyaratha Kissoon
Sherlina Nageer
Janette Bulkan
Nicole Cole
Karen de Souza
Joy Marcus
Vanessa Ross
Wintress White
Christian Vargas
Charlie Tokeley
