A/HRC/10/11/Add.2 page 26 94. The Government should demonstrate support for educational and cultural projects established by institutions and organizations within the Afro-Guyanese community and facilitate funding for those projects. 95. Restrictions on the media and freedom of expression should be lifted and legal definitions of the offences of “treason” should be evaluated as against international standards of freedom of expression. The Government should consider whether having the President also holding the portfolio of Minister of Communication has a chilling effect on freedom of expression in the current highly polarized context of Guyana. 96. A lack of disaggregated statistical data in all sectors hampers detailed and rigorous analysis of the relative situations of different ethnic groups in Guyana. Disaggregated data should be collected on a voluntary and confidential basis, and analysed to reveal the extent of inequality and to enable informed policy decisions. Such data should be used to fashion aggressive targeted affirmative action programmes to address the economic, educational and social inequalities that exist in the Afro-Guyanese communities comparative to those in the Indo-Guyanese communities. 97. There is a lack of information on the impact of the anti-discrimination provisions of the Constitution and legislation. The Government should establish a programme to monitor the extent to which these provisions have been used as the basis for criminal or other legal proceedings and what the outcomes have been. There should also be a data-driven evaluation of the Office of the Ombudsman and the Ethnic Relations Commission. That should lead to a re-evaluation of whether additional, more effective mechanisms should be created to tackle aggressively ethnic discrimination. This should be part of a national plan of action as called for in the Durban Programme of Action. -----