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International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Convention on the Rights of the Child |
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The adoption of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
in 1948 paved the way for the creation of an
unprecedented number of standards to protect
human dignity.
Jordan is a party to many human rights
agreements, including the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR,
1966), which provided the foundation of the
international legal framework that protects
human rights, the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR, 1966), the
International Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD, 1965),
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW, 1979),
the Convention against Torture and other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(CAT, 1984), the Convention on the Rights of the
Child (CRC, 1989), in addition to dozens of
other international documents related to various
rights.
The most significant are the two international
covenants which provided along with the (UDHR),
form the international framework of human
rights.
Through our
ongoing program supported by the
Arab Fund for
Human Rights pertaining to application of
international conventions on human rights ,
Tamkeen seeks to broaden the application of
existing international standards within the
Jordanian Judicial System.
Tamkeen Centre
developed and launched a study on the
application of conventions on human rights in
national jurisdictions,
see Publication
تطبيق الاتفاقيات الدولية لحقوق الإنسان في القضاء
الأردني، الواقع والسبل المتاحة
The study focus on
the extent the national judiciary actually
realize application of human rights conventions,
with reference to existing provisions of the
Jordanian judiciary related to application of
articles from the two International Covenants on
Human Rights which were published in Jordan on
June 15, 2006 in issue No. 4764 of official
gazette, in addition to Convention against
Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment, which was also
published on June 15, 2006 in issue No. (4764)
of the Official Gazette, as well as the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
published on 16 October 2006 in issue (4787) of
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Objectives
of the program:
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Promote respect of Human Rights
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Ensure that international human rights standards
are incorporated in the Jordanian judicial
system.
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Provide judges, lawyers and court officers with
necessary knowledge and skills on how to
implement human rights international conventions
before Jordanian judiciary.
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