Human Rights

Minister of Justice, Jamaica, Reinforces Country’s Commitment to the Protection of Human Rights at Opening of EDF – PANCAP Regional Meeting

October 31, 2018

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 (PANCAP Coordinating Unit, CARICOM Secretariat): The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), with funding from the CARIFORUM 10th European Development Fund (EDF) Programme of Support for Wider Caribbean Cooperation commenced the Regional Meeting for Advancing Recommendations for Addressing Gaps in the Human Rights Response under the PANCAP Justice For All Programme in Kingston, Jamaica on 30 October […]

Latin America and the Caribbean Adopts Its First Binding Regional Agreement to Protect Rights of Access in Environmental Matters

March 5, 2018

Delegates from the countries attending the ninth meeting of the Negotiating Committee on Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration approved the final text in Costa Rica. (March 4, 2018) Today the representatives of 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries who were gathered in San Jose, Costa Rica adopted the first binding regional agreement to protect […]

Barbados’ Human Rights Record to be Reviewed by Universal Periodic Review

January 16, 2018

GENEVA (16 January 2018) – Barbados’ human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Friday, 19 January 2018 in a meeting that will be webcast live. Barbados is one of the 14 States to be reviewed by the UPR Working […]

Bahamian Film Wins Amnesty International Human Right Prize

October 9, 2017

Port of Spain, Trinidad: The film Cargo by Bahamian film director Karim Mortimer, has won the Amnesty International Human Rights Prize at the recently concluded trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff). Established in an effort to support the promotion of human rights in the Caribbean, the Amnesty International Human Rights Prize is awarded to a Caribbean filmmaker […]

The United Nations System in Trinidad and Tobago Supports Efforts to End Child Marriage

January 17, 2017

The United Nations System in Trinidad and Tobago (UNTT) welcomes the resurgence of the debate on child marriage and reaffirms its support for all efforts to end this practice. Child marriage – defined by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as a formal or informal marital union engaged in by a person under age […]

The Privy Council on Sex, Gender and Equality

November 15, 2016

By Francis Alexis, 13 Nov 16 1. The UK Privy Council (‘UKPC’) upholds sexual orientation rights and defends stable ‘marriage-like homosexual relationships’; on provisions prohibiting discrimination based on ‘sex’, not ‘gender’; paras 6-8 below refer. UKPC proclaims gender equality as equal human development rights for women and men, unrelated to sexual orientation rights, paras 3-5 […]

Constitutional Reform, Human Rights; Human Wrongs and Sustainable Development

November 3, 2016

Dr. John N. Telesford a.k.a. Johnny Lecturer and Associate Dean, School of Continuing Education, TAMCC and Research Associate, Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada The hue and cry in the media and by prominent persons and organizations in our society, on the Rights and Freedom Bill to be voted upon on […]

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