Equal Rights

Taliban Values in Paradise. Bahamas Votes ‘No’ to Equal Rights

Friday, June 10, 2016 at 5:51 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

In “Referendum on Equal Rights in The Bahamas Is ‘Unnecessary’, Despite Dame Sawyer,” May 18, 2016, I expressed misgivings about the country of my birth subjecting the constitutional rights of fellow citizens to a referendum. I reasoned, in part, that the rights of citizenship at issue are necessarily implied in existing constitutional provisions. Further that we only… Read more.

Petty Politics (and Homophobia) Bedeviling Equal Rights for Women in The Bahamas

Friday, August 15, 2014 at 1:49 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

In 2002 voters in The Bahamas rejected a national referendum “to change the Constitution to eradicate language that made men superior to women” – as the February 12, 2012, edition of the Nassau Guardian framed the issue. I was so shocked and dismayed that I wondered aloud if we were vying to become the new… Read more.