"APA calls on govt to end inactivity on Chinese Landing issues", 03 December 2022

...The Amerindian Peoples Association today called on the government to end its inaction on issues affecting the Region One Community of Chinese Landing...The Amerindian Peoples Association...adopted several resolutions acknowledging the need for the recognition, protection, and advancement of Indigenous Peoples’ rights in Guyana...

The APA is aware that the health, safety, freedom, and quality of life of the community of Chinese Landing continue to deteriorate rapidly, and exhorts the National Toshao’s Council (NTC) to urge the Government to end its inexcusable pattern of inaction towards Chinese Landing under its statutory function and prior commitments...In the meantime, the Association will support Chinese Landing’s legal claims that its rights under the Constitution of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana have been violated.

...APA expresses dissatisfaction with the Government’s failure to timely respond to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in the case of Isseneru Village, especially in its discrimination against indigenous peoples by prioritizing mining interests...

...APA supports the communities of the Upper Mazaruni in urging the court to deliver its long-overdue judgement and the Wapichan communities of the South Rupununi in opposing illegal mining in the Marudi Mountain area and their traditional lands broadly. These lands are the subject of extension of title applications by the Wapichan communities...

...[T]he Association calls on the Government to respect the right of indigenous peoples to free, prior, and informed consent in the revision process...