CARIBBEAN-RIGHTS-US claims several Caribbean countries discriminate against Rastafarians, Muslims
May 28, 2013
WASHINGTON, CMC - The United States says several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, including Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Haiti and the Bahamas, are engaged in discriminatory practices against Rastafarians, voodoo practitioners and Muslims.
In its International Religious Freedom Report for 2012, the Department of State says while there were no reports of abuses of religious freedom in Haiti, some members of the voodoo and Muslim communities “complained they did not enjoy the same legal protections as Christians”.
Voodoo, which is widely practiced in Haiti, is often blended with elements of other religions, usually Catholicism.
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