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Human rights body calls on Jamaica to repeal its colonial-era ban on gay sex Inter-American Commission on Human Rights find anti-sodomy laws violate LGBTQ people s human rights 28SHARES Mahogany Beach in Jamaica – Photo: Jimfbleak, via Wikimedia. The top human rights body of the Americas has called on Jamaica to repeal its colonial-era ban criminalizing consensual same-sex relationships. In a first-of-its-kind ruling for LGBTQ rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ruled that criminalizing LGBTQ people or same-sex behavior violates international law. The decision was made in September 2019, but remained strictly confidential under the commission’s orders until Wednesday. In 2011, the commission, the human rights arm of the Organization of American States, heard complaints from two Jamaicans: Gareth Henry, who was attacked multiple times because of his sexual orientation, even being chased by a crowd of 200 people chanting that gays should die; and Simone Edwa

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