Panelists

UniHRD

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfill their human rights obligations. As one of the main features of the Council, the UPR is designed to ensure equal treatment for every country when their human rights situations are assessed. The ultimate aim of this mechanism is to improve the human rights situation in all countries and address human rights violations wherever they occur. Currently, no other universal mechanism of this kind exists.

Basel Tarawneh, Government Coordinator for Human Rights (middle) and Sameer Jarrah, Human Rights Expert (right)

UniHRD

The US Department of State’s “Trafficking in Persons Report June 2018”, released on June 28, 2018 stated that the Jordanian government has demonstrated “increased efforts” in the fight against human trafficking, as compared to last year’s report, but has failed to increase their international tier ranking this year. “Victims — including victims of domestic servitude — continued to be vulnerable to arrests, imprisonment and deportation for acts committed as a direct result of being subjected to trafficking, such as immigration violations and fleeing abusive employers,” the report indicated. (see article Jordan Times, July 5, 2018)

The Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung and the Arab World Center for Democratic Development - UniHRD in cooperation with the Department of Criminal Investigations & the Human Rights Coordinator at the Prime Ministry took the opportunity to review the human rights situation in Jordan concerning 'Human Trafficking' in order to set up recommendations on this issue for the government. 

Stakeholders from different sectors ......

UniHRD

The Workshop took place on September 13, 2018 in Amman.

Taking into account the results from the report the goal of the workshop was to examine with different stakeholders the recommendations Jordan received from states during the UPR session in 2014 regarding 'Human Trafficking' and to examine the developments and achievements the government of Jordan have done from 2013-2017 within the legislation on the ground as well as to discuss the National Report to be submitted during the upcoming UPR on November 8, 2018 in Geneva.