T&T faces calls for stronger human rights protections at UN review

Trinidad and To­ba­go has come un­der re­newed in­ter­na­tion­al scruti­ny over hu­man traf­fick­ing, the death penal­ty, dis­crim­i­na­tion, the treat­ment of mi­grants and gaps in its leg­isla­tive frame­work, as coun­tries made a se­ries of rec­om­men­da­tions dur­ing the coun­try’s fourth Uni­ver­sal Pe­ri­od­ic Re­view (UPR) in Gene­va yes­ter­day.

The re­view, con­duct­ed be­fore the Unit­ed Na­tions Hu­man Rights Coun­cil’s Work­ing Group on the UPR, ex­am­ined the coun­try’s hu­man rights record and its im­ple­men­ta­tion of rec­om­men­da­tions from the pre­vi­ous re­view cy­cle.

Lead­ing the del­e­ga­tion, Chargée d’Af­faires at the Per­ma­nent Mis­sion of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Chamyantie Lal, reaf­firmed the Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to pro­tect­ing fun­da­men­tal rights, while ac­knowl­edg­ing that fur­ther work was nec­es­sary.