The Inter-American Com-mission on Human Rights (IACHR) has denied the government’s request for a hearing before the full Commission on state violations of the rights of the Isseneru community and instead granted it a three-month extension to respond to the report of its findings.
The information was related to Sunday Stabroek by Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira.
The December 21, 2021 IACHR report, which was sent to the government in April of this year, informed that government is responsible for at least 16 violations of the rights of the Isseneru community and its members and recommended that reparations be granted to the village as well as that government employs the necessary measures to support Isseneru and its members in their duty to preserve and protect the environment, particularly in relation to the mining operations that the community undertakes on its ancestral lands.
