Following the pronouncement of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that the Government of Guyana is guilty of violating the rights of Isseneru and its villagers, the community’s leader have said that the violations have intensified.
They are also hoping that the government is swift in its implementation of the IACHR’s recommendations, including, among other things, that the necessary measures be adopted to ensure that the village and its members receive “full reparations for the material and immaterial damages they suffered on the account of the violation of their human rights.”
Additionally, the IACHR advised government to “…amend its legislation in order to secure that the provisions of the relevant Acts and regulations related to indigenous territorial property are in harmony with the American Declaration, in accordance with international law according to the present merits report.”