Trinidad and Tobago: Unprecedented withdrawal from the American Convention on Human Rights becomes effective on 26 May 1999

Index Number: AMR 49/004/1999
Date Published: 20 May 1999
Categories: Americas, Trinidad & Tobago

Unless the government of Trinidad and Tobago revokes its denunciation of the American Convention on Human Rights, from 26 May 1999 people under its jurisdiction will no longer have the protection of fundamental rights guaranteed by the Convention.