Comprehensive National Plan for Human Rights (for the years 2016-2025)

This National Plan for Human Rights is a 10-year nationwide multisectoral document aiming at achieving the strategic objective of safeguarding human dignity and the protection and enhancement and respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as the upgrading of Jordan’s status as an advanced model in the field of human rights. The Vision at the basis of the paper is to create a society based on justice, equality, and equal opportunities, which can only be achieved if provided the guarantees that enable the individual to enjoy his civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. To achieve the overall goal, the Plan set out the following Strategic Objectives (i) develop the national legislation to render them more in line with the Constitution and the international Conventions on human rights ratified by the Kingdom; (ii) prepare and develop the national policy for the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms by following a participatory approach that ensures the representation of all categories of the Jordanian society; (iii) cement the national accomplishments realized in the field of protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms, enhance them and build on them; (iv) build and enhance the individual and institutional capacities in the different governmental institutions concerned with human rights, in addition to supporting the role that the civil society institutions and NGOs play in this field.
The National Plan is constituted of 3 pillars (1) Civil and Political Rights; (2) Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; (3) Rights of the Categories that are the Most Vulnerable to Violation, namely disabled people, women (in terms of justice and equal opportunities), children (in terms of social protection, protection from violence, health, education), and elderly.