Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Adopt a national action plan for the improvement of the situation for indigenous peoples | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Continue its efforts in addressing the challenges in the promotion of the rights to education, inter alia through addressing high rates of student withdrawal from schools | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Intensify efforts to improve the quality of education, to deal with the issue of high dropout rates, and continue to increase resources for educational infrastructure | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Respect and protect the right to freedom of expression online and offline and bring its national legislation fully in line with international standards, including by decriminalizing defamation, and to develop self-regulatory mechanisms of the media | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 18 years | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Raise the age of criminal responsibility | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Continue efforts for the prompt adoption of the Law on Juvenile Justice | 2 - Continuing action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Increase age of criminal liability to 18 | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Put in place an independent organ to investigate complaints of abuses perpetrated by members of the country's security forces | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Take all the necessary measures including law reform initiatives to eliminate violence against children in all its forms, including corporal punishment | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Develop a comprehensive national strategy and adopt a national coordinating framework to ban all corporal punishment against children | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Prohibit corporal punishment, especially in schools, in accordance with article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as previously recommended | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Eliminate corporal punishment of children both in public and private life | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Repeal corporal punishment of children | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Seek the support of the Group of Friends of the Convention against Torture Initiative for technical assistance in the implementation of measures aimed at preventing and investigating reports of torture in the prisons system | 1 - Minimal action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Establish a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to definitively abolishing the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Establish a de jure moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its abolishment and ensure the death penalty is commuted to prison penalties | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Eliminate the death penalty from its legislation and alternatively, establish a moratorium on the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Accompany the informal moratorium on death penalty, maintained since 1997, by a commitment to the adoption of the necessary measures to establish a formal moratorium, with a view to eventually abolishing the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Establish an official moratorium on executions with a view to the complete abolition of the death penalty, and commute without delay death sentences into prison terms | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Establish an immediate official moratorium on the use of the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Carry out the necessary amendments to its national legislation so that no crime is punished by the death penalty | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Take the legislative and policy measures to prevent and fight against violence and fight against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity | 4 - General action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Amend all legislation that discriminates against persons on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity, as well as investigate incidents or acts of violence motivated by homophobia or transphobia and bring to justice those responsible for such acts | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Repeal all legal provisions that discriminate against persons on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Repeal all norms that can be presumed or interpreted as being discriminatory against persons based on their sexual orientation or gender identity | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Abolish discriminatory laws against LGBT persons and also amend its national legislation in order to include sexual orientation and gender identity as grounds of discrimination | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Advance in the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation or gender identity, particularly abolishing all regulations of the Penal Code that support those discriminations and reinforce legislative and judicial protections against such abuses | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Amend Article 149 of the Guyana Constitution to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and repeal Sections 351 to 353 of the Criminal Law Offences Act, which criminalizes sexual activities between consenting adults of the same sex | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016) | 21 - January 2015 | Guarantee to LGBTI persons the full enjoyment under equal conditions of their human rights, through the abolishment of the norms that criminalize and stigmatize them, and the investigation and sanction of cases of violence or discrimination motivated by sexual orientation or gender identity | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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