Summary: Information about institutions in Jamaica that monitor children's rights. Children's Ombudsperson
The Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA) established the Office of the Children's Advocate in 2004. The powers and duties of the Advocate...
[9 February 2012] - The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure which was adopted at the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, will be open for signature at a signing...
This 22nd annual World Report summarises human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close...
Summary: TIME magazine had previously described Jamaica as the most homophobic country. [6 January 2012] - For even the hard-nosed observer of Caribbean affairs, Jamaica's newly elected Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has...
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Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the first Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholder's...
Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 1386(XIV) of 20 November 1959
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have, in the Charter, reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person,...
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As Amnesty International (AI) releases its annual report on human rights, the world stands on the threshold of historic change. Courageous people are standing up and speaking out in the face of bullets, beatings,...
Summary: The Chief Justice has emphasised the need for a child friendly justice system, in light of the Office of the Children’s Advocate’s findings of its study, ‘Profile of Children in Conflict with the Law’. [11 March 2011] - The Chief Justice,...
Summary: The Ministry of Education has developed a Green Paper on Safe School Policy, which will, among other things, abolish the use of corporal punishment in all schools. [21 January 2011] - The policy is to be submitted to Cabinet soon and tabled...
