THE INDEPENDENT Jamaica Council for Human Rights (IJCHR) has established Jamaica's first human rights library, located at its offices in downtown Kingston.
Named the Janet Johnson Human Rights Library, the collection is available to the public for research, and also offers general reading on various rights topics, the council said.
The late Janet Johnson was an education consultant, whose work with the IJCHR included developing materials on human rights to be used in schools.
"We have launched an initiative to educate Jamaica on various topics on human rights," said Nancy Anderson, secretary of the IJCHR, in a release from the agency.
The library has a number of books on human rights, including titles such as 'Fundamental Rights and Freedom', 'International Human Rights Law', 'Human Rights in Jamaica, the Caribbean and the Latin America and Apartheid', and 'Independence Struggles'.
The IJCHR managing committee also received a donation amounting to over $120,000 from the family of Janet Johnson to finance the procurement of human rights material.
The library is open Monday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m., and 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. on Fridays.
