The Justice Institute Guyana (JIG) has written the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) warning it that the Request for a Thematic Hearing set for today “contains a number of factual and legal errors with respect to Guyana including misrepresentations on the land rights of indigenous peoples in Guyana.”
A press release from JIG said that “By misrepresenting the law the Request undermines the position of Amerindian peoples in Guyana and makes it harder for people to use their rights and remedies to protect themselves.”
The hearing titled `The Impact of Extractive Industries on Human Rights and Climate Change in the Caribbean’ was requested by Malene Alleyne, Jamaican human rights lawyer and Founder of Freedom Imaginaries, and Esther Figueroa, Jamaican environmental filmmaker supported by nearly ninety organizations and individuals across the Caribbean who co-signed the request.
