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Guyana Letter to the Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Urging the Organisation to Improve and Strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism Human Rights Watch writes to urge Dr. Ihsanoglu to use his position as Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to support measures at the upcoming Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Dakar, Senegal on March 13-14 that would improve and strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism. In particular, we urge the OIC to consider two amendments to the Convention in order to narrow its overbroad definition of terrorism and to make absolutely clear that there is no sanction in Islam for deliberately attacking civilians, whatever the circumstances or justifications. March 11, 2008 Letter Also available in 
Printer friendly version Guyana: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Guyana signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997 but has not yet ratified. Landmine Monitor has written to request information, including on the ratification status, but has not received a reply.22 Guyana voted for UN General Assembly Resolution 54/54B in support of the Mine Ban Treaty in December 1999, as it had done on previous resolutions in 1997 and 1998. It has also supported the pro-ban Organization of American States resolutions. It did not attend the First Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty in Maputo in May 1999. Guyana has not participated in the treaty intersessional work program. August 1, 2000 Multi Country Report Letter to Guyana's Foreign Minister We are writing to express our profound regret that your government plans to withdraw from the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). November 16, 1998 Letter Electoral Conditions in Guyana In the 24 years since independence, massive, systematic electoral fraud has denied the Guyanese people their right to freely elect their government. Unable to express themselves politically in free and fair elections and constricted by the repressive pressures of a single, dominant party, hundreds of thousands of Guyanese have sought freedom by emigrating, principally to the United States and Canada. Today, Guyana stands at a human rights crossroads. A national election, the first in five years, must be held by March 1991. If that election is free and fair, Guyana could regain the road to political freedom and the restoration of national confidence. But a free and fair election cannot be held without fundamental changes in the deeply flawed Guyanese electoral process. The country's current electoral machinery is ideally suited for manipulation by the governing party -- an opportunity for fraud which the government has repeatedly seized. If the election is to be free and fair and perceived as such, the entire process must be opened to public scrutiny. September 1, 1990 Report Download PDF, 87 KB, 51 pgs Printer friendly version
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