Human
Rights In Brief
The Human Rights program started at the UJRC since 1999. It works
on publishing and promoting human rights by providing a podium for
activists and organizations to follow up and supervise human rights.
It encourages national dialogue on national laws, public freedoms
and essential rights in Jordan, and the cooperation with national,
regional and international organizations, so as to exchange experiences
and achievements in the field of human rights. To achieve its goals,
the program organizes activities of which the most important are:
preparing an annual report, organizing training courses, workshops,
seminars and lectures, in addition to releasing paper and electronic
publications.
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.
a. 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.
b. To study and identify the causes of the obstruction of implanting
public freedom and human rights, and suggesting improvements for these
rights.
c. To provide a dialogue podium for human rights activists
to exchange experiences and achievements and discuss the obstacles
that hinder their work.
