{"id":8845,"date":"2015-07-20T08:44:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=8845"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:45:22","slug":"qa-on-jamaican-tv-ad-court-case","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/qa-on-jamaican-tv-ad-court-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and Respect: Q&#038;A on Jamaican TV ad court case"},"content":{"rendered":"&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Jamaican human rights activists and AIDS-Free World produced \u201cLove and Respect,\u201d a short, 30-second video advertisement calling for respect for the basic human rights of Jamaican LGBTI people.<\/p>\n<p>However, television stations in Jamaica refused to air it as a paid advertisement. prompting this legal proceeding. Jamaican human rights activist,\u00a0Maurice Tomlinson, is pursuing an appeal in the courts,\u00a0with the support of the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network. The appeal was\u00a0heard by the Jamaican Court of Appeal in\u00a0February\u00a02016.\u00a0The outcome of this court case will be a key milestone for advancing human rights in Jamaica, including for LGBTI people.<\/p>\n<p>The advertisement is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AZwCW1LREXk\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/AZwCW1LREXk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Love and Respect: Q&amp;A on Jamaican TV ad court case\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/13276\/?tmstv=1775550944\" 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-8845","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\/8845","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":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/8845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16922,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/8845\/revisions\/16922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=8845"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=8845"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=8845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}