Development and Politics in the Third World. The Causes of the Major Constitutional Human Rights Violations in Jamaica

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Middle- and South America, grade: A, University of the West Indies, course: Politics of the Caribbean, language: English, abstract: In recent years, the question of human rights violations within the context of development in Jamaica has become an issue of much scholarly debate. For in fact, if it does indeed hold true that development is a ‘many-sided process’, then sustainable development ceases to only translate within the confines of economic growth; it now extends to one’s ability to enjoy greater social freedoms inclusive of the level of respect towards human rights. By using the revised charter of The Fundamental Rights and Freedoms Act of 2011 enshrined within the Jamaican Constitution as a guide, this paper seeks to examine this issue of human rights violations in this country. With the use of empirical evidence gathered from a multiplicity of different scholarly sources and reports, one hopes to clearly outline these major violations in accordance with their social, economic and political causal factors.