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Spotlighting Female Genital Mutilation: An Insidious International Human Rights Crisis
*Image credit: The Desert Flower Foundation The practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is one of the most egregious manifestations...
Amanda Quest
Aug 266 min read
Time to take playing seriously
*Image credit: UNICEF. International Day of Play (“IDP”) passed on June 11, 2025, to very little fanfare. However, this relative...
Amanda Quest
Jun 222 min read
Pioneering Leadership on AI Governance in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Lessons from Trinidad and Tobago
*Image credit: World Bank Blogs (2025) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly establishing itself as the centrepiece of the Fourth...
Amanda Quest
May 263 min read
Reparations must come with responsibility and reform
Dear Editor, Reparative justice for the transatlantic slave trade and the centuries of oppression, exploitation, and violence it has...
Amanda Quest
May 172 min read
Human Rights, AI Ethics and the Rule of Law must be central to regulating FRTs
The JCF’s stated intention to roll out facial recognition technologies (FRTs) reflects a desire to modernize policing efforts. While...
Amanda Quest
May 32 min read
Laws criminalizing abortion undermine women’s right to a dignified life
In many Commonwealth Caribbean countries, the state dictates when and in what circumstances a woman can have an abortion, if at all. To...
Amanda Quest
Apr 153 min read
UX Design: Bridging the Access to Justice gap for self-represented litigants
UX Design, as a subset of User-Centred Design (UCD), seeks to meaningfully enhance a user’s interactive experience with a product,...
Amanda Quest
Apr 92 min read
The Rule of Law and AI Ethics: A dynamic, rights-based framework for regulating Facial Recognition Technologies
*Image credit: The National Judicial College While AI systems have proven beneficial to humankind in several ways, their deployment has...
Amanda Quest
Mar 304 min read
Where is Jamaica’s commitment to tackling elder abuse?
Just last week, I found myself watching intently as a spoilt, entitled man-child harassed his elderly mother for money to feed his...
Amanda Quest
Mar 184 min read
(Re)Imagining Access to Justice Through UX Design (Part 2)
Whilst access to justice has been recognized as a fundamental right, its realization in practice has often been undermined by resource,...
Amanda Quest
Nov 22, 20245 min read
(Re)Imagining Access to Justice through UX Design (Part 1)
*Image Credit: International Commission of Jurists (2024). With the rapid pace of technological advancements in the 21st century, it is...
Amanda Quest
Oct 21, 20244 min read
The Controversy of Abortion in Jamaica- Policing Wombs To Death
In Jamaica, the subject matter of abortion is as controversial, divisive and “touchy” as it is enigmatic. It is all of the above and more...
Amanda Quest
Jun 19, 20246 min read
On black hair, grooming policies and “respectability politics” in post-colonial Jamaica
*Image Credit- Comrade Sister: Women in the Black Panther Party (ACC Art Books, 2022). It has been over three years since the outcome of...
Amanda Quest
Jun 11, 20247 min read
Capital Punishment and its Refusal to Die: Views from Jamaica
*The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Image credit: Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (www.jcpc.uk). Copyright © 2022...
Amanda Quest
Sep 21, 20225 min read
Watching spaces, surveilling faces…in Jamaica? (Part 2)
*Image credit: The Verge. Copyright © 2022 The Verge. Over time, calls for the regulation of FRTs have intensified due to growing...
Amanda Quest
Aug 8, 20226 min read
Watching spaces, surveilling faces…in Jamaica? (Part 1)
*Image credit: EDRi. Copyright © 2022 EDRi. In July of 2020, the Jamaica Gleaner reported, to little fanfare, that high-tech CCTV...
Amanda Quest
Aug 8, 20225 min read
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