Missions

1. Spreading and acquainting with the human rights culture:

The process of spreading the human rights culture is facing many difficulties; some related to objective reasons concerning adopted mechanisms for spreading the culture, and others related to the dominant political culture. The Human Rights Program aims at defeating these difficulties by utilizing the following new mechanisms for spreading the human rights culture:

a. Acquainting with the regional and international agreements and declarations that organize human rights.

b. Communicating with the human rights staff by providing them with information that develops their operating skills, and providing them with international experts in this field in order to form a new generation of activists for this movement.

c. Cooperating with societies and institutions whose work is related, completely or partially, to the oppressed groups rights, such as children, orphans, delinquents, elderly and handicapped people. Preparing training programs for the staff of these societies and institutions, and coordinating with them to conduct campaigns in order to spread awareness on their activities and state the groups who benefited from their services.

d. Providing the local newspapers by journalistic materials about the reports prepared by programme, in addition to spreading summaries about the programme activities and studies. e. Cooperating with the national committees for human rights, universities and institutions of higher education to put the appropriate national plans for teaching human rights and determining the required curriculums.

2. Preparing database about human rights:

The Human Rights Program aims at providing a database in Jordan and the Arab World, specialized in human rights, to be available for human rights activists, researchers, academicians, parliamentarians and interested people. The program will practice this mission by:

a. Establishing a specialized informational archive that includes slips of daily, weekly, local, Arab and international newspapers and magazines, and placing the most important issues of this archive in an electronic database within the site of the Human Rights Program.

b. Establishing a specialized library containing the regional and international agreements and conventions that organize human rights, in addition to yearly books, reports, periodicals and recapitulations of the activities of human rights organizations.

c. Preparing a monthly chronology that covers the most important events of human rights, on the national and regional levels, in addition to covering the activities of the human rights movement in Jordan.

3. Evaluating the human rights situation:

Despite the development of the human rights movement in Jordan and the establishment of many national committees interested in developing human rights conditions, Jordan still lacks personnel to evaluate the human rights situation from all its aspects. The scientific and objective evaluation of the human rights situation is one of the necessary measures for the progress of the human rights situation, whereby it provides a clear vision on the weaknesses of human rights. This will help to put work strategies and plans that develop the human rights situation and determine work priorities and movement plans.

i. To publish and implant the principles of democratic freedom and human rights and to work on the study and development of Arabic and national strategies of human rights.

ii. To study and identify the causes of the obstruction of implanting public freedom and human rights, and suggesting improvements for these rights.

iii. To provide a dialogue podium for human rights activists to exchange experiences and achievements and discuss the obstacles that hinder their work.