Jamaica

Access to procedures 4
Administrative courts 1
Adoption 1
Age discrimination 2
Aliens 1
Anglican 10
Appeal / Right to appeal 3
Arbitrary arrest and detention 24
Armed forces / Military 4
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 9
Asylum policy 11
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 21
Baha'i 10
Baptist 10
Border conflict 2
Catholic 13
Child labour 21
Child prostitution 14
Child soldiers 3
Children's rights 62
Children-at-risk 24
Christian 8
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 9
Country of origin information (COI) 6
Crime prevention 1
Criminal justice 36
Death in custody 2
Death penalty 20
Decision on admissibility 1
Democracy 3
Deportation / Forcible return 27
Derivative status 1
Disappeared persons 21
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 25
Domestic violence 36
Drug trafficking 19
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 26
Effective protection 4
Effective remedy 10
Elections 10
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 37
False documents 2
Family reunification 2
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 4
Forced labour 29
Forced marriage 3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 32
Freedom of assembly and association 28
Freedom of expression 46
Freedom of information 22
Freedom of movement 19
Freedom of religion 40
Freedom of speech 20
Fresh / New claim 4
Gang related violence 10
Gender discrimination 37
Gender mainstreaming 2
Gender-based persecution 4
Generalized violence 1
HIV and AIDS 8
Harmful traditional practices 3
Hindu 10
Honour killings 1
Human Rights Council 10
Human rights activists 1
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 55
Human rights monitors 3
Humanitarian assistance 2
Immigrants 2
Immigration Detention 7
Immigration control after entry 1
Immigration law 3
Impunity 14
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 courts and tribunals 1
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
International protection 4
Involuntary repatriation 1
Jehovah's Witness 10
Jew 10
Legal representation / Legal aid 2
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 71
Maternal and child health care 1
Mental health 5
Mentally disadvantaged persons 7
Methodist 10
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
Minorities 9
Moravian 7
Mormon 1
Muslim 11
Non-refoulement 2
Non-state agents of persecution 10
Opposition 2
Pentecostal 10
Persecution based on political opinion 5
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 33
Persons of concern to UNHCR 4
Persons with disabilities 13
Police 52
Political groups 1
Political parties 4
Political situation 2
Pre-trial detention 3
Prevention of discrimination 2
Prison or detention conditions 26
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 12
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 6
Right to employment 9
Right to family life 12
Right to health 4
Right to justice 5
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 17
SGBV 71
Safe country of origin 1
Secondary movement 1
Security forces 35
Security situation 7
Serious non-political crime 1
Seventh Day Adventist 10
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 20
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 40
Women-at-risk 23

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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
List of issues in relation to the 4th periodic report of Jamaica : Human Rights Committee 9 May 2016 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Country 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
Country Information and Guidance - Jamaica: Background information, including actors of protection and internal relocation May 2016 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
State-Sponsored Homophobia, A world survey of laws: Criminalisation, protection and recognition of same-sex love May 2016 \| Publisher: International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) \| Document type: Annual Reports
Jamaïque : information sur le gang appelé « One Order » (« Un ordre »), y compris ses activités et la réponse de l'État (2013-mai 2016) 27 April 2016 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Jamaica: the One Order gang, including activities and state response (2013 - May 2016) 27 April 2016 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses

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