108.34
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the Sexual Offences Act to provide immunity to medical professionals against prosecution for helping child victims of sexual offence, for bona fide action taken to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections of sexually active adolescents below 16 years, to protect the child’s physical safety or emotional well-being
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
108.15
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enact comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation to provide accessible remedies for all forms of discrimination whether in public or private and in particular in the context of education, health, housing, social security, employment or accessing services, by 2025
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Labour rights
- Right to development
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Right to housing
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.102
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Expand resources for gender-based violence awareness campaigns, legal aid, shelters, and health, education and employment services for victims and survivors
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Human rights education and training
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.97
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt policies and instruments to guarantee the exercise of economic, social and cultural rights by women and girls, especially in the area of access to health services and the labour market under equal conditions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- ESC rights - general
- Labour rights
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.77
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts to ensure that persons living with and affected by HIV can access treatment, care and support services without fear of discrimination
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.76
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Fight against extreme poverty and guarantee access to health care and education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.74
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue implementing the Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy, emphasizing actions for adolescents and young people, and with a comprehensive approach that encompasses the prevention and treatment of all sexually transmitted diseases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.73
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to ensure adequate treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS and to protect people from discrimination based on health status
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.43
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take effective steps to reduce overcrowding in detention facilities, with alternatives to deprivation of liberty, and improve sanitary conditions and access to medical care for detainees
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Right to health
- Right to water and sanitation
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.42
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Respond constructively to the anticipated government task force report on the long-term incarceration of mentally ill people in Jamaican prisons, and address the systematic failures identified by the Independent Commission on Investigations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Right to health
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue the efforts under the policy to reduce overcrowding of prisons, including by resorting to alternatives to imprisonment, and improve conditions of detention, in particular with regard to sanitary conditions and access to medical care
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Right to health
- Right to water and sanitation
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.27
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the commendable efforts by the Government to boost economic development and environmental sustainability, and reduce the rate of chronic non-communicable diseases and poverty levels, particularly rural and child poverty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Poverty
- Right to development
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
107.17
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 36 - May 2020
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Provide guidance, including setting standards when necessary, and sensitize health professionals, health-service providers, security forces and legal operators to provide services with dignity and respect for all populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights education and training
- Right to health
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Date added
- Apr 19, 2021
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to commit more resources to primary health care
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Maintain actions aimed at improving the public health system of the country, including in the area of HIV/AIDS
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- HIV - Aids
- Right to health
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue strengthening its sound social plans and programs in favour of its people
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Right to food
- Right to health
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 2 (2012 - 2016)
- Session
- 22 - May 2015
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue measures to increase access to health services for all, and enhance quality while giving special attention to the groups in vulnerable situations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue implementing actions aimed at reducing maternal mortality from indirect causes
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to take measures to improve its health-care service, especially to guarantee the right of children to healthy growth
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to health
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 9 - November 2010
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue implementing programmes and measures to ensure the enjoyment of quality health and education services for the whole of its population
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Right to health
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
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