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Jordan and UN Charter-based Bodies

Jordan and UN Treaty Bodies

Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children - Mission to Jordan (A/HRC/32/41/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief - Mission to Jordan (A/HRC/25/58/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation - Mission to Jordan (A/HRC/27/55/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment - Mission to Jordan (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3)

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Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2017) CERD/C/JOR/CO/18-20

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2017) CCPR/C/JOR/CO/5

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Concluding observations (2017) CRPD/C/JOR/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2017) CEDAW/C/JOR/CO/6

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2015) CAT/C/JOR/CO/3

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2014) CRC/C/JOR/CO/4-5

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2014) CRC/C/OPAC/JOR/CO/1

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2014) CRC/C/OPSC/JOR/CO/1

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2000) E/C.12/1/Add.46

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UN Human Rights in Jordan

Since 2018, a Senior Human Rights Adviser (SHRA) is deployed to the Office of the Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator (RCO) under the framework of the UN Development Group Human Rights Mainstreaming Mechanism upon request of the UN Country Team (UNCT) in Jordan. More about OHCHR in Jordan.

Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact is in Geneva, Switzerland.

Middle East and North Africa Section
Tel. + 41 22 917 9777

Field

Senior Human Rights Adviser
Office of the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Jordan
Majed Al-Edwan Street 16
Amman 11194, Jordan
Email: cmeinecke@ohchr.org

Regional Office of Middle East and North Africa Website

Feature stories

OHCHR works with Jordanian police to train future peacekeepers on human rights
23-12-2019

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OHCHR in the field

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