Jamaica

• Annual Reports 169
• Commentaries 4
• Compilations 4
• Concluding Observations 8
• Country News 32
• Country Profiles 4
• Country Reports 76
• Country/Situation Specific Position Papers 4
• Mission Reports 1
• Query Responses 137
• Regional Reports 2
• Sessional Reports 1
• Speeches/Statements 3
• States Parties Reports 15

• Access to procedures 5
• Adoption 1
• Anglican 10
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 25
• Armed forces / Military 5
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 8
• Asylum policy 3
• Asylum-seekers 16
• Baha'i 10
• Baptist 10
• Border conflict 2
• Catholic 13
• Child labour 25
• Child prostitution 16
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 59
• Children-at-risk 24
• Christian 8
• Citizenship / Nationality law 1
• Civil and political rights 8
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
• Conflict situation 1
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 4
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2
• Corruption 12
• Country of origin information (COI) 1
• Criminal justice 20
• Death in custody 2
• Death penalty 20
• Democracy 3
• Deportation / Forcible return 4
• Derivative status 1
• Disappeared persons 21
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 25
• Domestic violence 30
• Drug trafficking 11
• EU Qualification Directive 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 26
• Effective protection 2
• Effective remedy 10
• Elections 11
• Entry / Exit 1
• Extradition 4
• Extrajudicial executions 38
• False documents 2
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 4
• Forced labour 31
• Forced marriage 4
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 24
• Freedom of assembly and association 29
• Freedom of expression 43
• Freedom of information 21
• Freedom of movement 19
• Freedom of religion 42
• Freedom of speech 18
• Gang related violence 10
• Gender discrimination 37
• Gender-based persecution 3
• Generalized violence 2
• HIV and AIDS 8
• Harmful traditional practices 2
• Hindu 10
• Honour killings 1
• Human Rights Council 9
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 49
• Human rights monitors 4
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 3
• Impunity 16
• Independence of judiciary 5
• Internal armed conflict 2
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 3
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 4
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 3
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 4
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 5
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• International protection 3
• Jehovah's Witness 10
• Jew 11
• Legal representation / Legal aid 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 60
• Maternal and child health care 1
• Mental health 1
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 2
• Methodist 10
• Migrants 1
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Minorities 10
• Moravian 7
• Mormon 1
• Muslim 11
• Non-state agents of persecution 5
• Opposition 2
• Pentecostal 10
• Persecution based on political opinion 4
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 25
• Persons with disabilities 10
• Police 57
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 4
• Political situation 3
• Pre-trial detention 4
• Prevention of discrimination 2
• Prison or detention conditions 22
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 10
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
• Protestant 3
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 6
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 2
• Rastafarian 12
• Refugee / Asylum law 2
• Refugee identity documents 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Refugees 19
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Religious discrimination 21
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 11
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Return conditions 2
• Returnees 1
• Right to a nationality 4
• Right to education 7
• Right to employment 9
• Right to health 3
• Right to justice 6
• Right to liberty and security 2
• Right to registration at birth 2
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rights of non-citizens 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 14
• Security forces 38
• Security situation 7
• Serious non-political crime 2
• Seventh Day Adventist 10
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 69
• Sexual and reproductive rights 4
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 2
• Social group discrimination 14
• State of emergency 4
• State protection 17
• Statelessness 3
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
• Terrorism 14
• Torture 2
• Trafficking in persons 57
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 12
• Visas 2
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• Witnesses 6
• Women's rights 41
• Women-at-risk 23

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• Amnesty International - Jamaica
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Jamaica
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Jamaica
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Caracas
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Jamaica
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Jamaica
• ReliefWeb - Jamaica
• UNHCR - Jamaica
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Jamaica
• United States Department of State - Jamaica
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Jamaica