by JFJAdmin | Oct 26, 2020 | General Human Rights Issues, Governance and Transparency, Highlighted Stories, Impact & Initiatives, Issues, NIDS
OCTOBER 26, 2020 – On September 29, 2020, the Government of Jamaica indicated that fresh legislation to establish the National Identification System (NIDS) would be tabled, debated, and passed by the end of the year. We welcome the restarting of public discourse...
by JFJAdmin | Sep 29, 2020 | General Human Rights Issues, Highlighted Stories, Issues, Policing and Public Security
September 29, 2020 – Jamaicans for Justice sends our condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of two members of Jamaica’s security forces shot and killed in the line of duty on Sept. 25 and Sept. 26. Private Reneil King, 21, was shot in a Jamaican Defence...
by JFJAdmin | Sep 9, 2020 | Access to Justice, Highlighted Stories, Impact & Initiatives, Issues
By datejie green Mercia Frazer’s son, Mario Deane, was fatally beaten in Montego Bay police custody on August 3, 2014. She has been waging a fight for justice through Jamaica’s courts and bureaucracy for more than six years. This summer she saw the first...
by JFJAdmin | Sep 8, 2020 | Access to Justice, Highlighted Stories, Impact & Initiatives, Issues, Policing and Public Security, Policy and Advocacy
A studio portrait of Mario Deane in his twenties. Photo courtesy of Mercia Frazer. By Tori Tulloch Since the police-involved death of thirty-one-year-old Mario Deane in 2014, the journey of his case through the criminal...
by JFJAdmin | Aug 21, 2020 | Education and Outreach, Highlighted Stories, Impact & Initiatives, Issues
Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) and the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC), with support from the European Union (EU), host a virtual sensitization session entitled “Workplace Discrimination: The Laws, Gaps and What’s To...
by JFJAdmin | Aug 3, 2020 | Child Rights, Safety and Justice, Highlighted Stories, Issues
Jamaicans for Justice wishes to clarify our involvement in the case of the 5-year-old instructed to cut her dreadlocked hair to attend Kensington Primary. JFJ was not party/claimant on the current matter and did not argue the full case before the Constitutional Court...
