Please provide safe and clean accommodation for gay and trans youth currently fleeing persecution in Jamaica's sewers.

The Issue

It is shameful and morally unacceptable for a modern 'Christian country' to turn a blind eye to the plight of these vulnerable young people. Up to thirty of them, some suffering life-threatening attacks, are forced to live and sleep amongst the excrement and rats, because it's the only safe place they can find in a vehemently homophobic and transphobic society. Please sign this petition to demand the Jamaican government act to provide safe alternative accommodation. 

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Vernal ScottPetition StarterBorn at St Mary’s Hospital, London, author Vernal Scott is an out Christian gay dad, diversity and human rights consultant, ‘McKenzie Friend’ (in family court), zestful keynote speaker, media commentator, and facilitator of workshops dealing with the matters raised in his non-fiction book, God's Other Children - A London Memoir. (Amazon, Barnes and Noble etc)
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The Issue

It is shameful and morally unacceptable for a modern 'Christian country' to turn a blind eye to the plight of these vulnerable young people. Up to thirty of them, some suffering life-threatening attacks, are forced to live and sleep amongst the excrement and rats, because it's the only safe place they can find in a vehemently homophobic and transphobic society. Please sign this petition to demand the Jamaican government act to provide safe alternative accommodation. 

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Vernal ScottPetition StarterBorn at St Mary’s Hospital, London, author Vernal Scott is an out Christian gay dad, diversity and human rights consultant, ‘McKenzie Friend’ (in family court), zestful keynote speaker, media commentator, and facilitator of workshops dealing with the matters raised in his non-fiction book, God's Other Children - A London Memoir. (Amazon, Barnes and Noble etc)
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The Decision Makers

Portia Simpson Miller, the Jamaican Prime Minister
Portia Simpson Miller, the Jamaican Prime Minister
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Petition created on 5 June 2014