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Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ)

We are a non-governmental human rights and social justice organisation. JFJ serves hundreds of Jamaicans each year by providing legal services in response to human rights violations, working on legislation and policy, campaigning for social justice causes, and conducting high-impact research that shape the national human rights agenda.

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Jamaica's Human Rights Violations score, 2014
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/human-rights

Human rights are the rights a person has simply because he or she is a human being. They are basic standards without which people cannot live in dignity and which provide a common standard by which people should treat each other.

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Mercia Frazer: “I’ll see to it that you get justice.”
By datejie green Mercia Frazer’s son, Mario Deane, was fatally beaten in Montego Bay police custody on August 3, 2014. She has been waging a fight for justice through Jamaica’s courts and bureaucracy for…
Mario Deane: A Timeline of Justice Delayed (Criminal Proceedings)
A studio portrait of Mario Deane in his twenties. Photo courtesy of Mercia Frazer.  By Tori Tulloch Since the police-involved death of thirty-one-year-old Mario Deane in 2014, the journey of his case through the criminal justice system has taken more than…
Remove 12-Month Limit on Reporting Sexual Harassment – #12MonthsIsNotEnough
Under the proposed Sexual Harassment Bill, if you have experienced sexual harassment and want something done about it legally, you have a 12-month limit to report it. The Sexual Harassment…
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