Useful Information

Publications

	OHCHR Report 2015
	OHCHR Management Plan 2014-2017
	Human Rights in Action (PDF)
	A Handbook for Civil Society (PDF)

Jamaica

Status of Ratifications
Reporting Status
Standing invitation to Special Procedures
(No invitation extended)
Voluntary Pledges and Commitments
(Not member of the Human Rights Council)

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Jamaica and UN Charter-based Bodies

Jamaica and UN Treaty Bodies

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment - Mission to Jamaica (A/HRC/16/52/Add.3)

Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions - Mission to Jamaica (E/CN.4/2004/7/Add.2)

>>Full list of documents in the Charter-based bodies Database

Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2016) CCPR/C/JAM/CO/4

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2015) CRC/C/JAM/CO/3-4

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2013) CERD/C/JAM/CO/16-20

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2013) E/C.12/JAM/CO/3-4

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2012) CEDAW/C/JAM/CO/6-7

>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database

OHCHR in Jamaica

The Human Rights Adviser in Jamaica was deployed in 2014 at request of the UN Country Team and the UN Resident Coordinator in Jamaica in the framework of the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) Human Rights Mainstreaming Mechanism (UNDG-HRM). More...