Human Rights

Maurice Tomlinson’s Countdown to Tolerance: College attack just latest example of Jamaica’s chronic intolerance

By Maurice Tomlinson Jamaica is renowned for its world-beating athletes. Sadly, the country is also notorious for its vicious homophobia. These two national attributes came together in tragic fashion recently on the campus of the state-sponsored University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), where Jamaica’s major track stars, such as Usain Bolt and Shell-Ann Fraser-Pryce, have recently …

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IACHR Condemns Murder of Two Gay Men in Jamaica

July 9, 2012 Washington, D.C. – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the killing in Kingston, Jamaica, of two men who, according to the civil society organizations and media outlets, were gay. The two bodies were found on June 13, 2012, in the vicinity of the intersection of Trafalgar Road and Lady Musgrave …

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‘My sister will be killed if she is sent back to Jamaica’

Brother pleads with Government to halt lesbian deportation Written by Mark Williams A WEST YORKSHIRE man says his lesbian sister will be killed if she is sent back to Jamaica and is urging immigration officials to reconsider a decision to deport her. Nestfield Lopez, 24, from Leeds, told The Voice that homophobia in the Caribbean …

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