In many places around the world, human rights and democracy are under threat. While we combat the global pandemic, multiple challenges are mounting in particular for the most vulnerable communities. As we celebrate Human Rights Day, the EU re-commits to stand and speak out for the oppressed and those under threat, wherever they may live.

Guyana on August 13, 2021, received a third shipment of 57,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines through the global COVAX initiative.

On May 7, 2021, Ambassador of the European Union to Guyana, Fernando Ponz Cantó, made a donation of electronic equipment (including laptops, mobile phones, tablets, printers and many others) to the Rotary Club of Demerara. The equipment was part of the reserve library of electronics of the EU Electoral Observation Mission [EUEOM] to Guyana for the March 2, 2020 general elections.

Guyana received today its first COVAX shipment of 24 000 vaccines, further boosting the country’s vaccination efforts against the dreaded coronavirus. EU Ambassador to Guyana, Dr Fernando Ponz Cantó, who joined representatives from the UN, PAHO/WHO, UNICEF, the Ministry of Health and other key partners, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Monday morning to witness the arrival remarked...