GEPAN Georgetown — On Thursday 26 July 2019, UNICEF and the University of Guyana (UG) hosted the Tain Talks on sexual violence in the Guyanese society. It was here that Director of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) Ann Greene, announced the troubling figure of 980 cases of child Read more…
GEPAN Georgetown 141 Guyanese survivors and victims of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) opened up to share their experiences through a survey launched by GEPAN, late 2018. The results were shocking. The majority of women had suffered multiple forms of abuse at different stages in their lives, including during Read more…
(Previous version published in journal The Thinker, Vol.2, January 2019, by Anna Correia de Sá) In recent years, Guyana gained notoriety for ranking among the top five countries with the highest suicide rates in the world, aquiring third place after Sri Lanka and Lithuania in 2017. According to the Small Read more…
Georgetown, 23rd October, 2018, GEPAN wishes to express its growing concern over the manner in which cases of rape, sexual assault and violence against women and girls (VAWG) are being handled by authorities in Guyana. We would like to state our disappointment that little has been done over the years Read more…
Georgetown- During the month of August, GEPAN distributed clothing to three indigenous villages inhabited mainly by resilient Macushi people: Yorong Paru, Tipuru and Karasabai. Despite the challenges in terms of transportation and logistics, our hinterland network was able to deliver these items to families in need by creating individual parcels. Read more…
Georgetown – Some of you would recall Carol-Ann’s public plea for assistance for her two young toddlers a few weeks ago. Carol-Ann is one of many victims of domestic abuse and gender-based violence, but this time, her husband is currently charged and forced to face the law for breaking her Read more…
by Joanna Correia de Sá – Gender-Based Violence (GBV) generally refers to any harmful act which is perpetrated against a person’s will on the basis of their gender and more specifically as a result of socially ascribed gender norms which define how men and women should behave. It is therefore Read more…
The Guyana Empowered Peoples Action Network (GEPAN) is concerned that Carl Parker is still allowed to fully assume office as Regional Executive Officer for Region 9. Pursuant to the multiple allegations of sexual harassment leveled against him by female workers in the region, and after two (2) long years Read more…
The Guyana Empowered Peoples Action Network (GEPAN) has received information that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended charges against Regional Executive Officer for Region 9, Carl Parker, pursuant to the allegations of sexual harassment made by Lethem Deputy Mayor, Maxine Anne Welch. According to Read more…
(Attached is the Deputy Mayor’s detailed account of her ordeal accompanied by an extract of Facebook exchanges between herself and the REO, illustrating his impropriety). The Guyana Empowered Peoples Action Network (GEPAN) lends its full support to Maxine Ann Welch, Deputy Mayor of Lethem, in her combat for justice against Read more…
