Guyana

Guyana: Stop Dress Code Arrests

Mar 5, 2009

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.

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Guyana: Stop Dress Code Arrests

Mar 5, 2009

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.
Letter to the President of the Republic of Guyana

Mar 5, 2009

Various organizations worked together to create this letter to the President of the Republic of Guyana expressing concern over the police arrests in Georgetown of people wearing clothes considered to be those of the other sex.
Organisation of the Islamic Conference: Improve and Strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism

Mar 11, 2008

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.
Letter to Guyana's Foreign Minister

Nov 15, 1998

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).