Current Version
Region | Jamaica |
Issue | Same-sex marriage |
Status | Not legal |
Start Date | Apr 7, 2011 |
End Date | now |
Description | Constitutional Ban. In 2011, the Parliament passed The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (Constitutional Amendment) Act, 2011 which explicitly banned same-sex marriage and any other kind of union to be recognized in Jamaica. |
Sources | https://www.japarliament.gov.jm/attachments/341_The%20Charter%20of%20Fundamental%20Rights%20and%20Freedoms%20(Constitutional%20Amendment)%20Act,%202011.pdf |
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Revision by Markissik. Added more information about constitutional ban
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Start Date | 1962 | Apr 7, 2011 |
Note | Constitutional Ban. | Constitutional Ban. In 2011, the Parliament passed The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (Constitutional Amendment) Act, 2011 which explicitly banned same-sex marriage and any other kind of union to be recognized in Jamaica. |
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Sources | http://www.newnownext.com/homosexuality-illegal-caribbean-countries/04/2018/ | https://www.japarliament.gov.jm/attachments/341_The%20Charter%20of%20Fundamental%20Rights%20and%20Freedoms%20(Constitutional%20Amendment)%20Act,%202011.pdf |
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Revision by LGBT_southeastasian
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Value | Foreign same-sex marriages recognized only | Not legal |
Start Date | (NONE) | 1962 |
Note | Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. Homosexuality is currently illegal. under the 2018 IACHR ruling. Gay Marriage and gay Unions pending. | Constitutional Ban. |
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Reports (2)
- Date is incorrect "Ban was in place after the new charter of rights of 2011 which replaced chapter three of the contitution https://www.japarliament.gov.jm/attachments/341_The%20Charter%20of%20Fundamental%20Rights%20and%20Freedoms%20(Constitutional%20Amendment)%20Act,%202011.pdf"
- Date is incorrect "It should be 2011"
Revision by Ausyk
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Sources | No | http://www.newnownext.com/homosexuality-illegal-caribbean-countries/04/2018/ |
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Note | Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. Homosexuality is currently illegal. under the 2018 IACHR ruling. | Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. Homosexuality is currently illegal. under the 2018 IACHR ruling. Gay Marriage and gay Unions pending. |
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Revision by Ausyk
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Value | Unrecognized | Foreign same-sex marriages recognized only |
Note | Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. Homosexuality is currently illegal. | Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. Homosexuality is currently illegal. under the 2018 IACHR ruling. |
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Revision by Ausyk
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Note | Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. Gay marriage legalization pending. | Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. Homosexuality is currently illegal. |
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Revision by Ausyk
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Note | Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. | Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. Gay marriage legalization pending. |
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Start Date | Jan 1, 1962 | (NONE) |
Note | Constitutional ban since 1962. Not enforced. Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. | Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. |
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Revision by Ausyk
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Note | Constitutional ban since 1962. Not enforced. Required Legalization under the 2018 AICHR Ruling. | Constitutional ban since 1962. Not enforced. Required Legalization under the 2018 IACHR Ruling. |
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Revision by Ausyk
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Value | Not legal | Unrecognized |
Note | Constitutional ban since 1962. Not enforced. | Constitutional ban since 1962. Not enforced. Required Legalization under the 2018 AICHR Ruling. |
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Revision by Ausyk
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Note | Constitutional ban since 1962 | Constitutional ban since 1962. Not enforced. |
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Value | Unrecognized | Not legal |
Start Date | (NONE) | Jan 1, 1962 |
Note | No | Constitutional ban since 1962 |
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Value | Legal | Unrecognized |
Note | Just became legal last year. | No |
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Revision by Ausyk
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Value | Not legal | Legal |
Note | Not legal because it has not yet decriminalized same sex activity. | Just became legal last year. |
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