Latest update February 24th, 2025 9:02 AM
Whim Bloomfield NDC residents was denied their rights by GECOM
Dear Editor,
Any country by adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has agreed that its citizens will benefit from all their basic rights that every person, regardless of race religion, gender, ethnicity age, or wealth has the right to received and enjoyed.
Under the Guyana Constitution it must be noted that “the interpretation of the fundamental rights provisions in this constitution a court shall pay due regards to international law, international conventions and charters bearing on human rights “.
The human rights treaties are at the core of the international legal system for the promotion and protection of the human rights of every child, man and woman .International human rights standards were developed to protect people’s human rights against violation by individuals, groups or nations.
Every UN member state is a party to the major human rights treaties. At a working session of the United Nations committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights held in Geneva Switzerland in 2015 Guyana demonstrated its commitment to the preservation of the rights of all citizens.
The recent decisions at the High court in Berbice where 51 persons were denied their rights to withdraw their names from a AFC political party document to ensure that the AFC can nominate candidates at the present LGE is a case in point. The issue is whether this decisions was made in haste, political judicial pressure, doctored police report (Minister intervention), or because GECOM has already printed the ballots for the LGE and as such the judge had no other option but ruled and denied the people their rights to withdraw their names and support from the AFC documents irrespective of trickery or not.
In Article 2 of International Human Rights Declaration it states “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind such as race, colour, sex, language religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Futhermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political jurisdictional or international status …” this evidently ensured that even if people want to change their marriage, religion, nationality etc. they have a right to, provided they followed the constitutional process.
Unlike the people of Whim – Bloomfield their rights to remove their names from AFC backers lists, despite legal authorised documents, were presented to GECOM and the court to indicate their choice. Unfortunately they were forced to support AFC.
The UN GHRA and the international community should pay careful attention to what is actually happening in Guyana.
Regards
Zamal Hussain
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