A coalition of civil society organizations began their submissions to the Parliament on the National Identification and Registration Bill (NIDS BILL). This is part of the public consultation process for the new NIDS Bill which was tabled in December 2020 following the...
Ending violence against children and women – The COVID-19 pandemic and its remedies have made women and girls more vulnerable to gender-based violence. Lockdown’s and stay at home orders have served as strategies that put women and children at greater...
How can an individual evaluate whether or not NIDS is right for them? Should it be mandatory? And what information should be required without breaching the right to privacy? And if it is truly voluntary should incentives be put in place to attract persons to the...
On the brink of emancipation day, Jamaica’s Supreme Court ruled that the constitutional rights of a young girl were not breached when she was barred from attending school because of her locks hairstyle. With the written judgment now available we discuss the tangled...
Jamaica was once the extrajudicial killing capital of the world, however with the establishment and work of the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM), in 2019 Jamaica experienced the lowest number of fatal security force shootings in 20 years. How critical...
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