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Jamaica

The GALE Right to Education Monitor still has to be done in Jamaica.
Interested to become a reporter? Contact info@lgbt-education.info

Relevant Conventions

Convention against Discrimination in Education

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Convention on Technical and Vocational Educationnot signed

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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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Convention on the Rights of the Child

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Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

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Links to interesting articles

Note: The Jamaica Gleaner and The Jamaica Observer seem to maintain a systematic media campaign to promote extremely distorted homophobic images among the Jamaican population. According to some observers of Jamaica, this should be seen in the context of the severe poverty in Jamaica and the shifting of responsibility for this to moral decline due to sexual license and homosexuality.

  1. Diana King on Jamaican Homophobia and Coming Out (Article on Jamaica's first Out lesbian reggae artist, Diana King, March 2013)
  2. Editorial in The Gleaner commending Jamaica's Roman Catholic Archbishop on his call for tolerance of homosexuals (July 2012)
  3. HR Committee Concluding Observations on Jamaica (November 2011)
  4. News clip on Stand for Tolerance and Unconditional Love PSA launch (August 2011).
  5. Letter to Jamaica Observer: 'I love my gay son' (July 2011).
  6. Lesbian gangs terrorise schools: one of many homophobic articles in the Jamaica Observer (June 2011).
  7. Jamaicans making it difficult for gays to stay with one partner? (April 2011).
  8. The Global Gay Rights Battlefields (December 2010).
  9. Letter of the Day: Bullying and cowardice in schools (December 2010).
  10. 'Student Flees After Gay Tape Leaked' (December 2010).
  11. Attack on gays bad for fight against HIV-AIDS (December 2010).
  12. Issues & Rights in Jamaica: Bruce leading us into expensive nightmare (November 2010).

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This page was last updated on 8 March 2013.