45the Session (January/February 2024)
This contribution reviews Jordan’s Universal Periodic Review- UPR (fourth cycle) to address three topics: The right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Syrian refugee labor conditions in Jordan and the exploitation they are exposed to, and gender-based violence against women and girls.
Recommendations to the Government of Jordan:
Join the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, withdraw its reservations to Articles 9 and 16 of the Convention, and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention.
Join the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and the two Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Respect the right to peaceful assembly, and stop all kinds of arbitrary detention.
Enabling unrestricted access to the Internet and the safe flow of information.
Strengthening national legislation to ensure respect for the human rights of women and girls and to completely prohibit discrimination and gender-based violence.
Advance women’s rights, particularly concerning passing nationality to their children or husbands.
guarantee freedom of opinion, expression, and access to information by relevant international standards.
Provide job opportunities for women, develop their skills in line with their needs in the labor market, and impose official control over where women’s employment is concentrated.
Tightening official supervision over child labor places, activating legislation regulating child labor and prohibiting the work of younger children, and strengthening awareness-raising efforts on the negative harms of child labor.
End discrimination against Syrian refugees in the labor market and issue work permits for Syrian professionals, including doctors, engineers, and lawyers, to work legally in Jordan.
Take all available measures to include Syrian refugees in the labor market to reduce poverty and guarantee salaries and social security by Jordanian laws.
