GUYANA

Follow-Up: State Reporting

    i) Action by Treaty body

CERD, A/62/18 (2007)

CHAPTER IV. FOLLOW-UP TO THE CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 9 OF THE CONVENTION

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497.     On 12 April 2007, reminders were sent by the coordinator on follow-up to the following States parties which had not yet sent information following adoption of the concluding observations of the Committee at its sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth sessions, held respectively from 1 to 19 August 2005 and from 20 February to 10 March 2006: Barbados, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zambia.

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500.     At its seventy-first session, the Committee decided that the Chairperson should send a letter to Guyana, reiterating its request for the follow-up report due since 10 March 2007 and expressing concern about information received from non-governmental sources on the non-implementation of the recommendations contained in paragraphs 15, 16 and 19 of the concluding observations adopted in March 2006 at its sixty-seventh session (CERD/C/GUY/CO/14). The Committee requested Guyana to submit its comments by 30 November 2007 and informed the State party that in the absence of a response, it may decide to consider the relevant issues under its early warning and urgent action procedure at its seventy-second session (18 February-7 March 2008).

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Annex IV

OVERVIEW OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY STATES PARTIES ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS

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Sixty-eighth session (20 February-10 March 2006) -

Follow-up reports due by 10 March 2007

a/ A reminder was sent by the Co-ordinator on Follow-up to this State party on 12 April 2007.