Guyana

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October 10, 2018

New Americas Treaty Boosts Environmental Rights

A new treaty to deepen the link between environmental protection and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean has the potential to reduce the conflicts that lead to the murders of so many environmental defenders in the region.

Environment

October 10, 2018 Commentary

New Americas Treaty Boosts Environmental Rights

Marcos Orellana
Director, Environment and Human Rights Division

Published In: El País
LGBT Rights

(Georgetown) - Guyana should halt arrests and police abuse of transgender people and repeal a repressive law that criminalizes wearing clothes considered appropriate only for the opposite sex, six human rights organizations said today in a letter to President Bharrat Jagdeo.

March 5, 2009 News Release

Guyana: Stop Dress Code Arrests

Reports More Reports

September 1, 1990

Electoral Conditions in Guyana

News

March 5, 2009 Letter

Letter to the President of the Republic of Guyana
March 11, 2008 Letter

Organisation of the Islamic Conference: Improve and Strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism
November 15, 1998 Letter

Letter to Guyana's Foreign Minister

Daily Brief

December 13, 2018

Too many Syrian refugee kids still not in school; Greece accused of refugee push backs; what a post-war Syria looks like; Russia's problematic 'gay propaganda' law; 'slave labor' protests in Hungary; fire destroys ballot boxes ahead of fraught DR Congo elections; Iran's crackdown on lawyers; Central African Republic militia leader arrested in France; and how to buy jewelry during the holidays without abusing human rights...