{"id":15415,"date":"2011-11-23T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T14:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15415"},"modified":"2011-11-23T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T14:14:38","slug":"new-caribbean-coalition-to-assist-against-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/new-caribbean-coalition-to-assist-against-discrimination","title":{"rendered":"New Caribbean Coalition To Assist Against Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASSAU, Bahamas \u2014 Gay men, sex workers and HIV-positive persons will be among Caribbean nationals who will qualify for free legal representation under the newly established Caribbean Social Justice Coalition, if they believe they are being discriminated against.<\/p>\n<p>Already the foundation of the international apparel company Levi Strauss Company has stepped forward to become the first funder of the coalition, which has been registered as a legal entity and launched here at the 2011 Caribbean HIV Conference which concluded Monday at Atlantis Paradise Island.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ernest Messiah, director of the UNAIDS regional support team for the Caribbean, said the coalition was born out of a need for the region to provide a mechanism for people who are subject to arbitrary discrimination, especially those who are poor and cannot afford legal representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the newly established Caribbean Social Justice Coalition gay men, sex workers and HIV-positive persons in the Caribbean can qualify for free legal representation if they feel they are being discriminated against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[100,207,252],"class_list":["post-15415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-caribbean-2","tag-gays","tag-homosexuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}