Carolyn Gomes

Jamaican human rights activist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroJamaican human rights activist
PlacesJamaica
isPhysician Pediatrician Activist Human rights activist
Work fieldActivism Healthcare
Gender
Female
Birth30 March 1958, Kingston, Jamaica
Age66 years
Star signAries
Awards
United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights2008
The details

Biography

The Honourable Carolyn Gomes, O.J. (born 30 March 1958 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican human rights activist. She is also the co-founder and now the past Executive Director of Jamaicans for Justice. Gomes resigned as the Executive Director of Jamaicans for Justice due to controversy surrounding the JFJ introducing sex education material into a number of private children's homes in Jamaica that was deemed inappropriate. Since 2014 Carolyn Gomes has been serving as the Executive Director of Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC).

Carolyn is medical doctor, she got her MB and BS degree from the West Indies in 1980. She then continued her education in United Kingdom and specialized in Pediatrics.She stopped her practice to become executive director of Jamaicans For Justice.

Executive Director of Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) since January 2014

On 10 December 2008, Gomes received the prestigious United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. On 19 October of the next year, she was honored with the Order of Jamaica, in recognition of her advocacy for human rights.

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