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.
Read more about this topic: LGBT Rights In Jamaica
Famous quotes containing the word effort:
“As Labor is the common burthen of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burthen on to the shoulders of others, is the great, durable, curse of the race.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)