MAY 30, 2020 – Jamaicans for Justice is deeply concerned by the news of the killing of Susan Bogle – a disabled woman…
May
27, 2020 – Jamaicans for
Justice seeks clarity on the protocols surrounding the Government’s implementation
of geofencing technology in its COVID-19 response.
The Prime Minister revealed in a virtual press conference on May 18, 2020,…
by Kathrina Dabdoub
May 23, 2020 marks ten years since a State of Emergency (SOE) was declared, and over 1,000 members of the Jamaica security forces were deployed in and around the communities of Tivoli…
April 21, 2020 – Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) commends the government for its swift and thorough response to COVID-19; recognising the dynamic nature of this situation, which highlights a difficult balance that our…
On March 13, 2020, the Government of Jamaica declared the entire island a “disaster area” in accordance with S.26 of the 2015 Disaster Risk Management Act; a response to the concerns surrounding the…
In 2019 Jamaicans for Justice trained over 996 police recruits in human rights prior to deployment in the fields. Learn more about our police training initiative.
Since 2000, over 3,300 Jamaicans have been killed by state
security forces. Jamaica faces a crisis on two fronts: a crisis of high crime,
and crisis of violence and abuse by security forces (disproportionately
impacting poor…
Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) welcomes the decision by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council handed down on 25 March, 2019 which held that the Police Service Commission in discharging its statutory functions…
Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) seeks to address its handling of reports received by Andre Smith who made complaints to JFJ of human rights violations by the police in August 2018. This statement provides…
Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) welcomes the ruling handed down by the Supreme Court on August 28, 2018 in the matter of Nadine Evans v The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) where the Court…