E/CN.4/2004/18/Add.1 page 25 Notes 1 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 2003. 2 See CERD/C/62/Dec.2. During his mission, the Special Rapporteur learned that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had agreed to the Guyanese Government’s request, submitted in April 2003, for technical assistance with preparation of this report. 3 UNDP, Second country cooperation framework for Guyana (2001-2003), New York, February 2002, DP/CCCF/GUY/2. 4 Kean Gibson, The Cycle of Racial Oppression in Guyana, University Press of America, New York, 2003, p. 4. 5 Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 9 had been unanimously approved by Parliament in December 2000, but under pressure from religious groups opposed to the inclusion of sexual orientation as one of the grounds for discrimination, the President was forced to delay its promulgation. Following negotiations between the various parties, a separate law on sexual orientation (Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 10 of 2003) will be put before Parliament. 6 See appendix I. 7 The ethnic and demographic information is taken from the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth periodic reports of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, consolidated in a single document (CERD/C/382/Add.1). 8 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/56/18), para. 348.