130.77
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 37 - November 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to safeguard against the effects of climate change and address, within the context of its Climate Change Adaption Strategy, threats posed to its ecosystems and food sources by ocean acidification and salt intrusion caused by carbon emissions and sea level rise
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- Right to food
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
107.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to engage with national stakeholders and United Nations agencies to address outstanding treaty body reports
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
104.196
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt coordinated and adequately funded measures to address and eliminate discriminatory stereotypes regarding the roles of women and men in the family and in society
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
104.121
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take all necessary measures to improve working conditions for women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
104.117
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to address forced labour and trafficking in persons, including trafficking in persons for the purposes of sexual exploitation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Labour rights
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
103.26
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps to address crimes against the person and particularly hate crimes and, in the latter regard, to conduct broad-based, periodic assessments of the efficiency and effectiveness of anti-discrimination policies and programmes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Racial discrimination
- Date added
- Oct 30, 2020
24.297
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue and increase the current efforts and awareness-raising actions to combat traditional and cultural attitudes to combat any perceived discrimination against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Human rights education and training
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
24.214
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue and expand the current efforts at tackling all aspects of trafficking in persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.104
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen efforts at addressing the situation of food insecurity, particularly in the Atlantic and Pacific Regions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to food
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
120.92
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 30 - May 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enhance cooperation at the regional and multilateral levels to address trafficking in persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Trafficking
- Date added
- Jul 3, 2020
94.129
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to work with regional and international partners in addressing domestic and gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
94.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to achieve equal access to quality education, including for children from low-income families
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to education
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
94.104
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 35 - January 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to expand HIV treatment, care and support services across the country
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2020
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Regarding the legal services in the hinterland, Guyana had expanded those services and had committed to continue to work on that issue
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana had voluntarily committed to hold consultations on 28 of the 55 recommendations. Those included recommendations on the abolition of the death penalty, on the abolition of corporal punishment, on the decriminalization of consensual same-sex adult sexual relations and on discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons, and on the age of criminality.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Although Guyana did not accept Recommendations 70.44, 70.45 and 70.46, it re-affirmed its commitment to investigate any and all allegations of extra-judicial killings through a transparent process and report on efforts made.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 21 - January 2015
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With regard to Recommendations 70.36 to 70.41, which related to the abolition of corporal punishment, the delegation stated that public opinion in Guyana was not in favour of the abolition of corporal punishment. The delegation indicated that Guyana has noted these recommendations and was voluntarily committed to consult and report on the results of the consultative process. In this regard, the delegation pointed out that consultations in Guyana were on-going on a draft Education Bill which included discussion on the issue of corporal punishment. Furthermore, Guyana has tabled amendments to the Training School Act and the Juvenile Offenders Act to remove corporal punishment from juvenile detention centres, which demonstrated Guyana's commitment to protecting children from all forms of abuse. These bills will be debated in October 2010 in the National Assembly. The delegation also emphasized that the Protection of Children Act 2009, the Domestic Violence Act 1997 and the Child Care Protection Agency offered a legislative and administrative framework to protect children from abuse.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
The delegation stated that Guyana re-affirmed its commitment to holding consultations with civil society, the four Human Rights Commissions, various levels of government and state agencies, and the National Assembly on the follow-up to the UPR process. It also reported its initiatives to strengthen the government-NGO partnership to reduce and prevent domestic and sexual violence.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Civil society
- Rights of the Child
- UPR process
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana made a commitment, before the UPR, that once evidence and witnesses are available all those responsible for the crime wave of 2002-2008 would be brought to justice, whether they were part of the violent criminal gangs or those in the "Phantom Squad".
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana is voluntarily committing to hold consultations on this issue [Repeal the laws that criminalize consensual sexual activities between people of the same sex, and protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual persons from discrimination and violence] over the next 2 years and based on the outcome of this democratic process, these will be reflected in Guyana's laws.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana is primarily committed to the implementation of the recently adopted Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act. This statute has been carefully scrutinised and found to be in compliance with the Convention. Guyana will continue to actively consider ratifying the Convention.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Disability rights
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
As regards Recommendations 70.47 to 70.53, which refer to decriminalizing consensual same sex relations and discrimination against gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and trans-gender persons, the delegation recalled that Guyana did attempt to include "sexual orientation" in the anti-discrimination clause in the revised constitution but that this was defeated in 2003. Whilst Guyana did not discriminate against persons based on their sexual orientation, it did not deny that interpersonal prejudices existed, based on cultural and religious beliefs. The delegation indicated that Guyana noted these recommendations and voluntarily committed to hold consultations over the next two years and to reflect the outcome of this democratic process in its domestic laws. Recommendations 70.54 and 70.55 were also noted.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
With regard to Recommendations 70.23 to 70.35 all of which related to the abolition of the death penalty, the delegation emphasized that public opinion in Guyana strongly favoured the retention of the death penalty. Guyana noted these recommendations and voluntarily committed to continue to consider and consult on the abolition of the death penalty and to report to the Human Rights Council in two years. With this in mind, Guyana has tabled an amendment to the Criminal Law (Offences) Act which provides for varied sentences for different categories of murder including life imprisonment and lesser sentences of imprisonment, as well as access to parole. This bill will be debated in the National Assembly in October 2010.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana supported Recommendation 70.43 on increasing the age of criminality and volunteered to report the outcomes of the on-going consultations in relation to the new draft Juvenile Justice Bill.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Detention
- Justice
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana voluntarily commits to continue to actively consider those remaining international human rights instruments.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana voluntarily commits to continue its consideration of the abolition of the death penalty and to report its findings to the UNHRC in 2 years.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana voluntarily commits to consider this [Ratify ILO Convention No. 169] and report in one year's time to the UNHRC and the ILO.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Indigenous peoples
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guyana is voluntarily committing to continue consideration of this issue [abolition of the death penalty] over the next 2 years and to report its findings to the UNHRC.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Death penalty
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- State under Review
- Recommendation
As regards Recommendation 70.19 which concerned the invitation to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, the delegation indicated that Guyana noted this recommendation and volunteered to consider it further and report to the Human Rights Council.
- Recommending State
- Session
- 8 - May 2010
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
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