Less than a month before the world’s leaders meet to strike a new deal on climate change, campaign group, Global Witness, hosted a public meeting with the President of Guyana, whose country stands to gain if an agreement is reached in Copenhagen on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD). The meeting took place in London, and explored the opportunities and risks of REDD, and provided a forum for NGOs, leading academics, government representatives and the press to question the President of Guyana, as well as the leader of indigenous people’s groups, on an ambitious plan to stop deforestation and embark on a ‘low carbon development’ path. See videos and learn more.

The first edition of this Dossier, launched at City Hall, Georgetown, on Tuesday 17 November 2009. This was two weeks after a photograph of the mutilated body of a 15 year old boy was released. His genital area burnt during police custody, and his stay ina police cell for 3 days after the incident.

Read the dossier by clicking here. Download an EXCEL spreadsheet with the names of persons murdered (447) since 1992. This document is a work in progress and anyone who can shed light on ways to improve it and correct it (it lists 448 killings, there may be more, there may be names to the unidentified persons listed, there may be more information on the places where people came from, the families left behind." Email us and we'll forward that information.

The purpose of this Dossier is to give support to the demand by the Joint Opposition Parties [Alliance For Change (AFC); Guyana Action Party (GAP); National Front Alliance (NFA); People’s National Congress/Reform (PNC/R) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA)] for an International Inquiry into
matters involving grave human rights violations including, but not confined to: extra-judicial killings carried out against hundreds of mainly young male adult Guyanese by a cabal consisting of Government officials in the executive, security and intelligence branches of the state, political bosses of the ruling party (People’s
Progressive Party/Civic – PPP/C), working in consort with their allies in organized crime; and, torture, degrading and inhuman treatment conducted against Guyanese citizens by arms of the country’s Security Forces (Guyana Defence Force – GDF, Guyana Police Force – GPF and the Guyana Prison Service).