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Jamaica: Stop the killings: Public security reforms and human ...
30 September 2009

Jamaica: Stop the killings: Public security reforms and human rights in Jamaica [Postcard]

Document       AMR 38/003/2009

Jamaica: Public security reforms and human rights in Jamaica
21 July 2009

People in Jamaica's inner cities have for decades been caught between the reign of fear exercised by criminal gangs and violent policing. Far-reaching reforms to ...

Report       AMR 38/001/2009

Amnesty International | Jamaica: Public Security Crisis - Facts & ...
21 July 2009

Jamaica has extremely high rates of violent crime. According to police statistics, in 2008 alone there were 1611 murders in Jamaica – in a population of only 2.

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Summit of the Americas fails to address human rights | Amnesty ...
20 April 2009

TheDeclaration of Commitment of Port of Spain fails to lay out a clear human rights framework forprogress in the areas of human prosperity, energy security and

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China, Iran and Jamaica go against trend on executions | Amnesty ...
28 November 2008

The execution of a Chinese scientist on Friday is the latest in aseries of executions that are going against the global trend towards amoratorium on the death pena

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Jamaica: A return to hanging will not solve public security crisis
19 November 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index No: AMR 38/005/2008. 19 November 2008. Jamaica: A return to hanging will not solve public security crisis. ...

Document       AMR 38/005/2008

La pena de muerte. El castigo máximo
1 June 2008

La pena de muerte. El castigo máximo

Report       ACT 50/015/2008

Death Penalty Toolkit: Political sleight of hand - the death ...
1 June 2008

Death Penalty Toolkit: Political sleight of hand - the death penalty not an answer to crime

Document       ACT 50/007/2008

Death Penalty - the ultimate punishment: Campaigning toolkit
1 June 2008

This toolkit contains eight factsheets: Towards abolition; Killed by the state; Secret executions; The death penalty: the Ultimate punishment; A life for a life ...

Report       ACT 50/015/2008

Amnesty International | Jamaica: Poor communities held hostage to ...
1 April 2008

(Kingston) Amnesty International today criticized the Jamaican authorities for wilfully neglecting poor Jamaicans by failing to tackle the corruption and violence ...

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