Jamaica

• State Department - Country Documents
• Library of Congress - Law Library of Congress (LLOC)
  • Family Reunification Laws in Selected Jurisdictions - July 2014

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • JAM101649.E - Documentation required and procedures to be followed by a parent wishing to travel abroad with a minor child in the absence, or without the consent, of the second parent - Sept 2006

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• Department of Labor - Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
   

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • JAM101751.E - Prevalence and forms of child abuse; legislation governing the protection of abused children and its implementation; availability of child protection services - Mar. 2007

• Coalition to stop the use of Child Soldiers - Child Soldiers Global Report - 2008
• Human Rights Watch

• "Nobody's Children" Jamaican Children in Police Detention and Government Institutions - 1999

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• Election Guide - Recent elections - 2012

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• World Directory of Minorities - Overview

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• World Directory of Minorities- Rastafarians

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • JAM201016.E - Jamaica: Gender-based violence (GBV), including domestic violence; implementation of the National Strategic Action Plan to Eliminate Gender-based Violence (NSAP-GBV); state protection and support services available (2018–April 2023) - May 2023
  • JAM104717.E - Domestic violence, including legislation, state protection and support services available (2010-2013) Jan. 20, 2014
  • JAM101753.E - Legislation governing domestic violence and its enforcement - April 2007

Non-Government Organization Reports

• Human Rights Watch Profile
  • Not Safe at Home - Violence and Discrimination against LGBT people in Jamaica - Oct. 2014
  • Hated to Death: Homophobia, Violence and Jamaica’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic - Nov. 2004

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• State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999

• Amnesty International
• Amnesty International Report - Death Sentences and Executions in 2019 - Apr 2020
• Freedom House 
  • Freedom in the World - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • JAM100736.E - Criminality and state protection, including crime rates, types of crime, percentage of reports made to police which led to investigation, charges and convictions - January 2006

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• University of Texas at Austin - Map Collection

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• UK Border Agency Country of Origins Information (COI) Report - Medical and Health care issues - March 2020
• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • JAM106078.E - Jamaica: Services available to individuals with mental illness, including persons with bipolar disorder; recourse and complaints mechanisms available to patients receiving psychiatric care, particularly those treated at the psychiatric ward (Ward 21) of the University Hospital of West Indies, against malpractice by healthcare providers (2014-March 2018) - March 2018

• World Health Organization Page

• Human Rights Watch
  • Hated to Death:- Homophobia, Violence and Jamaica's HIV/AIDS Epidemic - 2004

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• CIA - Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • JAM100744.E - Violence between supporters of the Jamaica Labour Party and those of the People's National Party; availability of police protection; neighborhoods or regions not defined by a particular political allegiance - Jan. 2006

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• State Department International Religious Freedom Report -  2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • JAM101933.E - Treatment of homosexuals by society and government authorities; availability of support services - February 2007
  • JAM43553.E - Whether male homosexuality or lesbianism is illegal and penalties - May 2005

• Asylum Research Consultancy (ARC)
  • Country-of-origin information to support the adjudication of asylum claims from Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex ("LGBTI") asylum-seekers - July 2012
• Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
  • Treatment of Homosexuals in Jamaica - Feb. 2010

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• UK Border Agency Country of Origins Information (COI) Report
  • Fear of organized criminal groups - Sept. 2022

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• BBC Timeline

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• Trafficking in Persons Report - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017