Facts You Should Know About Women's Rights
Description
- Creator
- People's National Party, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Pamphlets
- Description
- Issued by the People's National Party (PNP), details on the party's commitment to protecting women's rights. The authors credit the party with raising women's employment rates, passing the Women's Act and Maternity Leave with Pay Law, creating the Women's Bureau and Women's Centre, founding the Family Court, and instituting a national day care programme.
- Notes
- The People's National Party (PNP) is the leading social-democratic political party in Jamaica. Founded by O.T. Fairclough and Norman Washington Manley, the PNP emerged from the British West Indian labour uprising as the oldest political party in Jamaica. It governed the island on a "democratic socialist" agenda from 1972 to 1980.
- Publisher
- People's National Party
- Place of Publication
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- CERLAC Resource Centre, Shelf P3, Box Jamaica PNP Manley Govt Documents
- Collection
- CERLAC
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Saint Andrew, Jamaica
Latitude: 17.99702 Longitude: -76.79358
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- "Facts You Should Know About Women's Rights" (n.d.), n.p.
- Location of Original
- CERLAC Resource Centre, Shelf P1, Box PNP + Manley Government Documents
