Female victims of domestic abuse in St Thomas and Portland are set to benefit from a gender-based violence initiative which is being spearheaded by Stand Up For Jamaica and sponsored by the German Embassy. Under the project, which will run from May.
HUMAN rights group Stand Up For Jamaica (SUFJ) has renewed its call for parliamentarians to reconsider the proposed legislation mandating a 20-year sentence for children convicted of capital murde.
14-y-o on attempted rape charge A fourteen- year-old boy has been slapped with attempted rape charges following an incident along Crawford Street, Mount Salem, St James, on January 2. Reports from the Montego Bay police are that about 11:40 p..
Concerned that too many underprivileged Jamaicans are being victimised by the justice system, a group of attorneys and human rights campaigners have banded together to assist persons who have been languishing behind bars because of systemic.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Stand Up For Jamaica (SUFJ) Carla Gullotta is renewing her call for authorities to track and release all mentally ill inmates from prison. Some of these persons, she said, are lost in the system. Her call comes on the heels of.