45the Session (January\/February 2024)<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Recommendations to the Government of Jordan:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Join the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and the two Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.<\/p>\n
Respect the right to peaceful assembly, and stop all kinds of arbitrary detention.<\/p>\n
Enabling unrestricted access to the Internet and the safe flow of information.<\/p>\n
Strengthening national legislation to ensure respect for the human rights of women and girls and to completely prohibit discrimination and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n
Advance women’s rights, particularly concerning passing nationality to their children or husbands.<\/p>\n
guarantee freedom of opinion, expression, and access to information by relevant international standards.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Take all available measures to include Syrian refugees in the labor market to reduce poverty and guarantee salaries and social security by Jordanian laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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