Calls for the decriminalisation of consensual same-sex relations and the abolition of the death penalty were high on the list of recommendations put to Jamaica on Wednesday during the third review of the country’s human rights record by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group.
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World pressure
IT is probably more than co-incidental that INDECOM, after being heralded by the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee, has come under serious scrutiny by Parliament.
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INDECOM’s oversight issue
UNITED States Ambassador to Jamaica Luis Moreno says he is proud of his country’s push for respect for human rights here, and vowed that Washington would not relent in this effort.
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US committed to seeing equality in Jamaica
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (CMC) — The United Nations Human Rights Committee says Canada’s deportation of a Jamaican man with a mental disability who spent most of his life in Canada amounted to “cruel and inhuman treatment”.
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UN says deportation of J’can from Canada ‘cruel, inhuman’
