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Located in the Caribbean Sea, Jamaica occupies the third largest island in the Greater Antilles Group, south of Cuba and West of Haiti. Since gaining independence from Britain in 1962, Jamaica has maintained a parliamentary democracy led by a prime minister who, along with the cabinet, appoints a Governor General to act as representative of the British monarch, still ceremonial head of state. Decades of uneven growth and inequality have held Jamaica back from stability and the full realisation of human rights, with the high levels of violent crime being matched by significant police abuses and a brutal criminal justice system, alongside the approval of widespread anti-LGBT prejudice in national law.
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85 Human development index6 Happy planet rankingOrganisations in Jamaica
- Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
- Canadian International Development Agency
- CARE USA
- Child Helpline International
- Global Campaign for Education
- Global Fund for Children
- Global March Against Child Labour
- Humanity without Frontiers
- International Centre for Child and Youth Studies
- International Federation of Business and Professional Women - UK
- International Planned Parenthood Federation
- International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
- Jamaica Coalition on the Rights of the Child
- Ministry of Health - Jamaica
- Office of the Children's Advocate - Jamaica
- Office of the Children's Registry
- Save the Children UK
- School of Education
- SOS Children's Villages International
- UNESCO
- Women's World Summit Foundation
- World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)
