 | THE WEEK IN RIGHTS October 23, 2014 |  | |||||
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In 2006, TIME named Jamaica the most homophobic country on earth. Whether that report was accurate or not, violence against LGBT people in Jamaica today is rampant. Police, schools, and hospitals discriminate against LGBT people in Jamaica.
But attitudes are shifting and a heated public debate about LGBT rights is taking place within the government, in churches, and both in blogs and the mainstream media. The debate is spurred, in part, by the brutal murder last year of a transgender youth, Dwayne Jones. A mob chased the 16-year-old, who was wearing women’s clothing at a party, into a crowded street, where people stabbed him, shot him three times, and deliberately ran over him with a car.
In this interview, researcher Rhon Reynolds talks about the new Human Rights Watch report "Not Safe at Home" and what Jamaica should do to protect LGBT people.
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 | Ukraine: Widespread Use of Cluster Munitions It is shocking to see a weapon that most countries have banned used so extensively in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities should make an immediate commitment not to use cluster munitions and join the treaty to ban them.
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 | United Arab Emirates: Trapped, Exploited, Abused The UAE’s sponsorship system chains domestic workers to their employers and then leaves them isolated and at risk of abuse behind the closed doors of private homes. With no labor law protections for domestic workers, employers can, and many do, overwork, underpay, and abuse these women.
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 | Dispatches: US – Another Blank Check for For-Profit Probation Augusta, Georgia has become an unwitting poster child for the abuses that plague America’s for-profit probation industry. The local courts’ relationship with a company called Sentinel Offender Services has fueled injustices shocking enough to generate headlines across the country and around the world. People guilty of the most trivial offenses have been put behind bars and left mired in debt because they cannot afford to pay extortionate company fees.
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| Olympics: Host City Contracts Will Include Rights Protections For years, repressive governments have brazenly broken the Olympic Charter and the promises they made to host the Olympics. This reform should give teeth to the lofty Olympic language that sport can be “a force for good.”
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