Human Rights Body Calls for Repeal of Jamaica’s Anti-LGBT Laws

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image LGBT Rainbow Flag © 2008 Ludovic Berton (Wikimedia Commons) The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights today made public a decision calling on Jamaica to repeal laws prohibiting consensual same-sex conduct. The commission’s conclusions in Gareth Henry and Simone Carline Edwards v. Jamaica are by some measures a no-brainer. Petitioners argued that Jamaica’s 1864 Offences Against the Person Act, which punishes the ‘abominable crime of buggery’ and acts of ‘gross indecency’ between males with up to ten years in prison with hard labor, violates rights protected under…

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