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Title	Jamaica: Treatment of lesbians and whether there is any lesbian organization in Jamaica (1998)
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Jamaica
Publication Date	1 June 1998
Citation / Document Symbol	JAM29624.E
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Jamaica: Treatment of lesbians and whether there is any lesbian organization in Jamaica (1998), 1 June 1998, JAM29624.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6ab1f1c.html [accessed 27 May 2012]
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Jamaica: Treatment of lesbians and whether there is any lesbian organization in Jamaica (1998)

Current reports on the treatment of lesbians and whether there is any lesbian organization in Jamaica could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate. Please note that Responses to Information Requests JAM27371.E of 14 July 1997 and JAM24284.E of 24 June 1996 provide updated information on the situation of homosexuals in Jamaica.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Sources Consulted

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1997. 1997.

IGLHRC Action Alert [San Francisco]. 1998.

ILGA Bulletin [Brussels]. 1998.

Latin America Regional Report: Caribbean and Central America Report [London]: 1998.

Electronic sources : Research Directorate databases, Global NewsBank, Lexis/Nexis, REFWORLD, World News Connection (WNC).

Topics: Women, Lesbians, Homosexuals,

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

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