International lawyer and environmental activist Melinda Janki has called on members of the United Nations to request Guyana to halt all oil activities until human rights are protected.
The Director of the Justice Institute Guyana (JIG) has also requested that the special rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment be invited to make a visit to Guyana.
In a statement to diplomatic missions and civil society on December 12, 2019, at the UN’s headquarters in Geneva, Janki denounced the local oil sector arguing that proposed oil production would violate constitutional rights to a healthy environment, life and property as well as the constitutional rights of future generations.