Jamaica

Access to procedures 3
Administrative courts 1
Adoption 1
Age discrimination 2
Aliens 1
Anglican 9
Appeal / Right to appeal 3
Arbitrary arrest and detention 24
Armed forces / Military 3
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 9
Asylum policy 11
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 21
Baha'i 9
Baptist 9
Border conflict 1
Catholic 12
Child labour 20
Child prostitution 14
Child soldiers 3
Children's rights 59
Children-at-risk 23
Christian 7
Citizenship / Nationality law 2
Civil and political rights 8
Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
Complementary forms of protection 2
Conflict situation 1
Constitutional law 1
Convention against Torture (CAT) 4
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 4
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2
Convention refugee 1
Corruption 8
Country of origin information (COI) 6
Crime prevention 1
Criminal justice 34
Death in custody 2
Death penalty 20
Decision on admissibility 1
Democracy 2
Deportation / Forcible return 25
Derivative status 1
Disappeared persons 20
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 25
Domestic violence 35
Drug trafficking 18
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 25
Effective protection 4
Effective remedy 9
Elections 9
Entry / Exit 1
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 6
Exceptional leave to remain (ELR) 1
Expedited procedures 4
Extradition 5
Extrajudicial executions 33
False documents 2
Family reunification 1
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 4
Forced labour 29
Forced marriage 3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 32
Freedom of assembly and association 26
Freedom of expression 45
Freedom of information 22
Freedom of movement 19
Freedom of religion 38
Freedom of speech 20
Fresh / New claim 4
Gang related violence 6
Gender discrimination 36
Gender mainstreaming 2
Gender-based persecution 4
Generalized violence 1
HIV and AIDS 8
Harmful traditional practices 3
Hindu 9
Honour killings 1
Human Rights Council 10
Human rights activists 1
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 54
Human rights monitors 3
Humanitarian assistance 2
Immigrants 2
Immigration Detention 7
Immigration control after entry 1
Immigration law 3
Impunity 13
Independence of judiciary 4
Internal armed conflict 2
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 5
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 10
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 3
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 5
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
International protection 4
Involuntary repatriation 1
Jehovah's Witness 9
Jew 9
Legal representation / Legal aid 2
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 69
Maternal and child health care 1
Mental health 5
Mentally disadvantaged persons 7
Methodist 9
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
Minorities 9
Moravian 6
Muslim 10
Non-refoulement 2
Non-state agents of persecution 9
Opposition 2
Pentecostal 9
Persecution based on political opinion 5
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 32
Persons of concern to UNHCR 4
Persons with disabilities 13
Police 44
Political groups 1
Political parties 4
Political situation 2
Pre-trial detention 3
Prevention of discrimination 2
Prison or detention conditions 25
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 10
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
Protestant 3
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
Public health 8
Racial / Ethnic persecution 2
Rastafarian 11
Refugee / Asylum law 3
Refugee identity documents 1
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
Refugees 25
Regional instruments 2
Rejected asylum-seekers 1
Religious discrimination 21
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 11
Resettlement 1
Residence permits / Residency 1
Return conditions 3
Returnees 1
Right to a nationality 4
Right to education 5
Right to employment 9
Right to family life 12
Right to health 4
Right to justice 3
Right to liberty and security 3
Right to registration at birth 1
Right to seek asylum 1
Right to self-determination 2
Rights of non-citizens 2
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 16
SGBV 69
Safe country of origin 1
Secondary movement 1
Security forces 34
Security situation 7
Serious non-political crime 1
Seventh Day Adventist 9
Sexual and reproductive rights 4
Small arms 1
Smuggling of persons 2
Social group discrimination 14
Social group persecution 7
State of emergency 4
State protection 17
Statelessness 4
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
Temporary admission 1
Terrorism 14
Torture 1
Trafficking in persons 54
Unaccompanied / Separated children 6
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 13
Urban refugees 1
Visas 3
Voluntary repatriation 1
Well-founded fear of persecution 1
Witnesses 6
Women's rights 39
Women-at-risk 22

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Jamaica: Illegal police tactics fuel scores of murders and sow culture of fear 23 November 2016 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News
2015 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - Jamaica 30 September 2016 \| Publisher: United States Department of Labor \| Document type: Annual Reports
Freedom in the World 2016 - Jamaica 29 August 2016 \| Publisher: Freedom House \| Document type: Annual Reports
2015 Report on International Religious Freedom - Jamaica 10 August 2016 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
Country programme document : Jamaica 5 August 2016 \| Publisher: UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) \| Document type: Country Reports
A Commentary on the May 2016 Country Information and Guidance report issued on Jamaica 11 July 2016 \| Publisher: Still Human Still Here \| Document type: Commentaries
2016 Trafficking in Persons Report - Jamaica 30 June 2016 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
"I feel scared all the time." A Jamaican sex worker tells her story 27 May 2016 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News
Annual Report 2015 - Caracas (regional) 9 May 2016 \| Publisher: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) \| Document type: Annual Reports
Universal Periodic Review (22nd session) Contribution of UNESCO to Compilation of UN information (to Part I. A. and to Part III - F, J, K, and P) : Jamaica May 2016 \| Publisher: UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) \| Document type: Country Reports

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