{"id":11959,"date":"2015-12-09T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=11959"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:47:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:47:14","slug":"constitutional-challenge-to-jamaicas-anti-sodomy-law-qa","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/constitutional-challenge-to-jamaicas-anti-sodomy-law-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional challenge to Jamaica\u2019s anti-sodomy law: Questions &#038; Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"Jamaican human rights activist Maurice Tomlinson has filed a claim in the Jamaican Supreme Court of Judicature, challenging the country\u2019s laws criminalizing \u201cbuggery\u201d and other consensual sex between men as violating numerous rights guaranteed in Jamaica\u2019s constitution. This backgrounder answers some key questions related to this constitutional challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Related news release:\u00a0<a href=\"..\/jamaican-gay-activist-launches-constitutional-challenge\/\">Jamaican Gay Activist Launches Constitutional Challenge<\/a><br \/>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Constitutional challenge to Jamaica\u2019s anti-sodomy law: Questions &amp; Answers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/13360\/?tmstv=1776589278\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[153,160],"publication_type":[178],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-11959","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-lgbtq-rights","publication_topics-the-caribbean","publication_type-qa","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/11959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/11959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22207,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/11959\/revisions\/22207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=11959"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=11959"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=11959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}