Decriminalization Effort
Following Jamaica's Prime Minister Portia Simpson pledge that "no one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation", LGBT rights campaigner Maurice Tomlinson filed a case in Jamaica's inter-American commission for human rights in February 2012, after fleeing the country following death threats originated when news about his marriage with another man in Canada reached the local media. No date for the first hearing has been set.
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