Homophobic Anglican Archbishop Drexel Gomez, not-retired-enough, remains chairperson of the ¨punitive¨ Anglican Covenant ¨design group¨ HERE |
The LGBTI Bloodrenched Flag of Jamaica |
More than fifty men and women who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual have faced various human rights violations between January and June 2011.
¨Jamaicans continue to experience human rights violations at the hands of their family, friends, neighbours, landlord, police or mobs because of their sexual orientation. Since January 2011, fifty-one incidents, including mob attacks, physical abuse, home evictions, and discrimination were reported with forty-seven of these meted out to males. Similar to national statistics on crime and violence, young people, 18 to 29 years, continue to be the main victims of violence based on sexual orientation. Young people made more than 30 of the 51 reports.
JFLAG says homophobic violence is on the increase across Jamaica. More than 50 cases reported
“On average, J-FLAG has documented between 30 and 40 cases annually over the past three years, but we have seen an increase in the number of reports which shows that homophobia based harassment and discrimination continues because of the lack of protection of the human rights of homosexuals living in Jamaica by the state,” says Dane Lewis, Executive Director at J-FLAG...¨ please read it all,
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