The 17th annual report on the human rights situation in Jordan-NCHR

On Tuesday, October 26, 2021, the National Center for Human Rights in Jordan launched its seventeenth annual report on the state of human rights in the Kingdom for 2020, during a press conference held at the headquarters of the Center, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Erhayel Gharaibeh, and Commissioner-General Alaa El-Din Al-Armouti.

During the conference, the most prominent contents of the report were reviewed, whose methodology was based on monitoring policies, legislation and practices from a human rights perspective based on the Jordanian constitution and international standards governing human rights, to be one of the national tools for human rights assessment.

The report included three main axes, namely, the axis of civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights, and the rights of the groups most in need of protection, in addition to a special appendix that includes statistics on the number of complaints received by the Center during the year 2020, distributed according to the right in violation. The report also included basic and detailed recommendations.