The Center also formed the National Alliance for combating Torture which composed of
500 member from among the official institutions, civil society organizations, and human
rights activists. The Alliance aims to urge the Jordanian government to ratify the OPCAT
through conducting awareness raising workshops in all the kingdom's governorates.
Migrant domestic workers (arts. 2, 8 and 26)
12- In recent years, many measures have been taken at both the legislative and policy levels to
ensure the rights of migrant workers, including the domestic workers, inter alia:
• The establishment of the Anti-trafficking Unit within the Public Security
Directorate. The Unit's roles are to provide protection for migrant workers
including domestic workers, investigate into violations against them, and bring the
perpetrators to justice. The year 2016 witnessed the submission of (30 cases on
suspension of human trafficking) to the Public Prosecutor, among which (21) cases
related to forced labor (domestic workers), and all of these cases are pending
before the court.
• The promulgation of the Anti- Human Trafficking Law. No.9 for the Year 2009.
Amendments to the Ordinance are presently being discussed in order to provide for
stricter punishment for human traffickers.
• The establishment of a 24-hour hotline in the Ministry of Labor to receive the
migrant workers complaints, including the domestic works. This service is
available in 7 languages.
• The handing of renewing employment contracts of domestic workers by the
Domestic Workers Recruitment Department at the Labor Ministry and the Labor
Inspection Offices, where the attainment of the domestic workers of their full
entitlements for the past year is being verified, and ascertain that she has not been
beaten, or that he has not been subjected to restrictions on her freedom of
movement by imprisonment, or that she has not been physically, psychologically
and sexually abused, and that she was permitted to retain her passport, through
asking her a lot of questions prior to approve her employment contract for the next
year.
•
The promulgation of Regulation No 90/2009 Of Domestic Workers, Cooks,
Gardeners and persons employed in similar occupations, which states that the
obligations of the employer, including paying salaries and wages on time, as well as
the rights of workers, including the right to one day off each week, the limitation of
working hours to 8 hours, annual paid leave of (14) calendar days, and for a sick
leave .. etc., the provision of health care for the worker, permitting worker to practice
their religious ceremonies, and the provision of air tickets Etc.
•
The opening of Dar Al Karameh “Dignity Shelter” in 2015, which is affiliated to
the Ministry of Social Development. The Shelter accommodates survivors of
human trafficking of domestic an non-domestic works who left their employment
or were subjected to ill-treatment. In addition to these shelters, there is the
Jordanian women Union and Dar al Wifaq Al Osari Home Shelter (Family
Reconciliation House). This Shelter receives these cases, accommodate them, and
provide the necessary services until the victim is rehabilitated and integrated in the
labor market or the voluntary return to her country of origin.
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