Will Teixeira, Harding and Holder champion women’s issues?

Feb 25, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I found your article interesting in that it raises the issue of violence against women and seeks to encourage women candidates to be a voice for women in Guyana.
However, I believe all candidates and political parties should make women’s issues a priority – after all this is a societal problem.
Men must be told that women’s issues are family issues – men have mothers, sisters and daughters not to mention nieces. If men could be educated to treat the women in their lives as they would want other men to treat their mothers and daughters, perhaps we wouldn’t have as many cases of abuse and fatalities – but that approach is too simplistic and I digress.
Yes, Teixeira, Harding and Holder could be a voice for women –although I’d be surprised if Harding already isn’t, given her background, but violence against women should be a concern of men and women alike. The conversation should be framed to emphasise for the most part, it is men who beat women – and men in Guyana, as is the case in other countries, have social power. In addition, some have economic and political power. These men must be held accountable.
Women need advocates, but most importantly women need their basic human rights respected and protected – by frontline police officers, magistrates and judges. Perhaps it is time for a public education campaign to address not only this issue but the rights of women generally.
June Veecock

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