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On
Wednesday, October 21, 2015, the USAID – Advancing Partners and
Communities (APC) Guyana Project and the Society Against Sexual
Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) hosted the second in its series of
"Lunch Talks" at the APC office in Oleander Avenue, Bel Air Park,
Georgetown. This “Lunch Talk” sought to examine the Concluding
Observations from the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights (CESCR) on Guyana’s recent review on September 28 - 29, 2015.
The
Concluding Observations after Guyana’s recent review on September 28
and 29 were released on October 9, 2015. The Concluding Observations
contain the collective assessment of the state's record and
recommendations for enhanced implementation of the rights under the
International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
At
the “Lunch Talk”, a team from SASOD including of Managing Director,
Joel Simpson; Advocacy and Communications Officer, Schemel Patrick and
SASOD Volunteers, Monica Brinn and Chase Gorishek, shared a summary of
the SASOD’s Stakeholder Report accentuating pertinent topics that were
highlighted by the Committee in its Comcluding Observations to the
Government of Guyana. The discussion around the table interrogated the
Concluding Observations and outlined a clear roadmap of how the
Government of Guyana can meet its treaty obligations to fulfil the
economic, social and cultural rights of all Guyanese.
