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Recently, the program started publishing a series of human rights dialogues concerned with human rights in Jordan and the Arab world. The aims are to introduce a subject for discussion and then convey its results and recommendations to the largest possible number of people and to decision makers. The series also contains translations and researches that fall under the aims and interests of the human rights program. The series published were:

First issue: The role of the department of family protection against family violence. It documents the debate session organized by the program of human rights on July 24, 2001, in which Lieutenant Colonel Fadel El Humoud discussed the experience of the public security department in averting the problem of family violence.

Second issue: Needs of the elderly in Jordan. It documents the workshop organized by the program on August 14, 2001, where Dr. Moh'd El Ma'any presented a briefing on a research on the needs of the elderly with, the participation of a group of experts, specialists and human rights activists.

Third issue: The right to health services in national laws and international treatise, where the Workshop held by the Human Rights Program on the 4th of September 2001, has documented what Dr. Zaid Hamzeh presented a legal and political analysis of the right to health service. Dr. Hamzeh has surveyed the historical development of the right of obtaining health services on the international level and exerted to enact them in international agreements and declarations. He has also analyzed the changes that the implementation of this right faces; particularly the health sector and the influence of that on the privilege of accessories after health service and care. A demonstration was presented on the application of the right of health services within the Jordanian laws.

 

Fourth issue: Public Meeting's temporary law: scenarios for its implementation and dismissing as unconstitutional, has documented a dialogue session that was organized by the Human Rights Program on the 11th of September 2001. In which, attorney Mr. Sameeh Khrais, has commented on the articles of the temporary laws # 45 for 2001. The issue presented a historical glimpse of the right to hold meetings and how it's related to democratic development of governance. He analyzed this right by contrasting it to clauses cited in the Jordanian constitutions, and the democratic openness stage that had been witnessed by Jordan. He analyzed the drawbacks of the articles that came in the rationale temporary law, and discussed the procedures for dismissing it as un constitutional at the High Court of Justice.

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Reports:

Memorandum on the state of human rights in Jordan: In accordance with the partnership agreement with the E.U by virture of (article 2) of the agreement, June 2002.

The parallel report of the non-governmental organizations about the economical, social and cultural rights, 24/4/2000.

The supplementary report about the economic, social and cultural rights, 14/8/2000.

Human rights in Jordan 2000: Economic, social and cultural rights.

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