Saint Vincent And The Grenadines Immigration Detention Profile

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IMMIGRATION AND DETENTION-RELATED STATISTICS

Total number of immigration detainees by year

Not Available

2019

Total number of detained minors

Not Available

2017

Criminal prison population

412

2014

460

2013

Percentage of foreign prisoners

8.3

2014

7.8

2013

Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)

378

2014

422

2013

Population

101,390

2020

109,000

2015

International migrants

4,692

2019

4,600

2015

International migrants as a percentage of the population

4.2

2015

Refugees

2015

Stateless persons

2015

SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Gross Domestic Product per capita (in USD)

6,668

2014

Remittances to the country

2014

Net official development assistance (ODA) (in millions USD)

9.2

2014

Human Development Index Ranking (UNDP)

97 (High)

2015

DOMESTIC LAWS AND POLICIES

Legal tradition

Common law

2017

INTERNATIONAL LAW

International treaties

Ratification Year

ICRMW, International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

2010

CRPD, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

2010

CTOCSP, Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

2010

CTOCTP, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children

2010

PCRSR, Protocol to the Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

2003

CAT, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

2001

CRSSP, Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons

1999

VCCR, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

1999

CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child

1993

CRSR, Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

1993

CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

1981

ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

1981

ICERD, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

1981

ICESCR, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

1981

Individual complaints procedure

Acceptance Year

CRPD, Optional Protocol to o the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2010

2010

ICCPR, First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 1981

1981

Ratio of complaints procedures accepted

Observation Date

2/8

Regional legal instruments

Year of Ratification (Treaty) / Transposed (Directive) / Adoption (Regulation)

CBDP, Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belem do Para) 1996

1996

Relevant recommendations of the UN Universal Periodic Review

Observation Date

No 2016

2017

No 2011