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As a Jamaican who loves to travel, I have often reflected on the irony of having a “poor” passport, meaning one that doesn’t get you into many countries easily, while living on a Caribbean island that everybody wants, and gets, to visit. 

Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) protects Freedom of Movement out of any country, and into a country of which you are a citizen. But it doesn’t go so far as to protect the right of an individual to explore the world. This has always seemed strange to me, as the right to travel is almost inherently implied in the pursuit of other expressed rights, such as those in Articles 3, 19, 22 and 23: the right to liberty; the right to seek information regardless of frontiers; the right to free development of personality; and the right to favourable work and opportunities among others.

Read Pitch Cool Joan ‘Nanook’ Webley’s full article in Voice Of.