QUESTIONS have been raised in the Houses of Parliament about why Guernsey is not compliant with two United Nations conventions.

Labour MP Austin Mitchell (pictured), the member for Great Grimsby, asked the Home Office how many of the UK Crown Dependencies or Overseas Territories had not implemented the UN convention for the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (Cedaw).

The Minister of State for the Ministry of Justice, Labour MP Michael Wills, replied that while the convention had been extended to the Isle of Man, the British Virgin Islands, the Falkland Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands, Jersey and Guernsey had not implemented it.

The Channel Islands have also not introduced the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Nonetheless, Mr Wills, the MP for North Swindon, said Jersey and Guernsey had started the preparatory work.

A Policy Council spokesman said the States was working towards the extension of the conventions but that took time and resources.

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