Jordan presented the final list of recommendations it supported during its third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) under the auspices of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday, March 3, 2019. The Kingdom received 226 recommendations from 91 countries last November and initially supported 149.

Arab Network for Civic Education-ANHRE and the Jordanian Coalition for Education for all (Joint Submission) submitted its report related to the Universal Periodic Review of Jordan to The Human Rights Council, Session 31 in November, 2018

The coalition, ANHRE and the educational alliance, calls on the members of the Human Rights Council to encourage the Jordanian Government to:-

- Step up efforts to eliminate child labor and sparing children the worst forms of child labor

- Take all necessary measures to improve access to education and its quality and train highly-qualified teachers, with special emphasis on rural areas where males drop out and join the labor force and females go for early marriage.

- Taking immediate action to ensure that all children residing in Jordan have access to elementary education without discrimination. To that end, it is necessary to amend laws and combat practices that lead to discrimination against Jordanian children due to limited resources

- Amend the Labor Law, so that it does not allow for male child labor. There should be strict fixed working hours for children above 16, and the maximum number of hours should be reduced from 36 to 15 hours a week with legal liability in case of violation.

- Support pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers and help them pursue their education

- Prevent early marriage and/or child marriage among all groups of society, pursue females’ best interests and their right to education, and organize campaigns to raise awareness on the negative consequences of these marriages.

- Submit periodic reports to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, given that the last report was submitted in 2000. Through these reports, it is possible to highlight the real status of these rights.

 

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