Jamaica's commitment to safeguarding human rights will come under more international scrutiny.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hold a hearing on the matter in Washington DC Tuesday.
The hearing will involve Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) and other human rights organizations.
This is the second hearing to be held this year, and is said to be a very rare occurrence that signals the Commission's interest in the human rights situation in the country.
The previous hearing was in March.
Jamaica will be the only CARICOM state to have a hearing into its human rights record at this session of the IACHR.
The Commission has convened the meeting in a follow up to the response of the Jamaican government, to the findings and recommendations in its 2012 report, titled "Situation of Human Rights in Jamaica".
The IACHR in that report documented, among other things, what it called entrenched patterns of impunity for members of the police force involved in civilian killings, structural failures of the justice system and the abuse of vulnerable populations such as children.
At Tuesday's session, the government will be required to give an account of the steps it has taken to address these issues.
JFJ will present on issues regarding detention practices, inhumane conditions and the treatment of persons held in police lock-ups.
The organisation will also make a presentation about its continuing concerns about extra-judicial killings by security forces, and the breach of duty to children in conflict with the law among other things.
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