International human-rights organisation, Amnesty International has noted that levels of violence against women and girls in Guyana remained high while Indigenous Peoples continued to face obstacles to realizing their land rights and at least one person was shot by police last year in circumstances suggesting it may have been an unlawful killing.
In its 2011 Annual Report on the state of the world’s human rights, the NGO noted that Guyana’s human rights record was assessed under the United Nations Universal Periodic Review last September. The authorities supported a number of recommendations, but rejected a wide range of others. For example,