Year: 2022
Year: 2022
Year: 2020
Not Yet Assessed
No
Active extraterritoriality is provided for all crimes in the Sexual Offences Act. Double criminality is a requirement. No provisions related to passive extraterritoriality are mentioned.
Extradition requires a minimum gravity of two years of imprisonment. Double criminality principle is required.
SECTT Legal Checklist Guyana, 2020
Not Yet Assessed
Partial
There is a mandatory legal provision for organizations offering employment in child care to verify if the individual has been convicted for an offence against a child and therefore has been declared unsuited to work with children. It is unclear whether this provision also applies to other sectors which involve contact with children beyond childcare and whether it applies to volunteers as well as workers.
SECTT Legal Checklist Guyana, 2020
No
Guyana has ratified the CRC, the OPSC and the ILO Convention No. 182.
Guyana has not ratified the the Trafficking Protocol, the OPIC, the UNWTO Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics nor the Council of Europe’s Lanzarote and Budapest Conventions.
SECTT Legal Checklist Guyana, 2020
Not Yet Assessed
Not Yet Assessed
No
Guyana just started the process to develop a national code for child protection for the tourism industry.
SECTT Legal Checklist Guyana, 2020
Not Yet Assessed
