considered a unique privilege of the Center that sets it apart from other similar national
human rights institutions.
At present, the NCHR has an overall staffing of (44), (57%) out of them hold professional
level posts specialized in human rights, which include monitoring and verifying respect of
human rights, follow up complaints, studying and analyzing legislations ,awareness training
and education, , as well as conducting studies. The majority of the professional staff are
lawyers and human rights activists, and many of them had previously worked in CBOs and
gained a wide experience in monitoring, verifications and complaints handling.
The remaining staff members provide administrative backstopping and secretarial support
for the above-mentioned activities. In 2014, in response to the increased workload in the
field of the promotion and the protection of human rights in the Kingdom, the professional
level staff members increased compared to the year 2010, by the appointment of 7 new staff
members. The Center, during the last four years has been pursuing a recruitment policy that
take due regard of the standard rules of the equalization of opportunities and transparency in
the procedures. Vacancy announcements are posted in the local newspapers, while the
recruitment was carried out by an independent committee where only the Commissioner
General from the Center participated in its work. The new staff members were employed
on the basis of merit, and according to written tests results and personal interviews. The
budget is deemed sufficient to cover all of the running and the salary expenses etc.,
however, the Center aims for increasing its budget in order to be able to implement
awareness-raising and education human rights programs, open branches in other
governorates, build networks and alliances to perform its functions, and enhance the
capacities of its own staff as well as of its partners from among the civil society, judges,
lawyers and media personnel, in the area of promoting monitoring and human rights.
In relation to the NCHR recommendations, it is to be noted that the Jordanian government
follows up these recommendations and responds to Center's reports directly or through the
Human Rights Coordinator Office at the Prime Ministry, at the direction of the Prime
Minister to all ministers and official institutions and the Government Coordination Team,
which is comprised of liaison officers working in the ministries and other official
institutions. The team has issued three “explanatory reports”. The reports indicated the
procedures taken by the Jordanian Government with regard to the implementation of the
recommendations in the areas of legislation, policies, and procedures, as well as in
addressing the recommendations issued by the international governmental, nongovernmental, and treaty-based committees. In addition, in March, 2016 the Jordanian
Government launched the Comprehensive human Rights Plan for the period (2016-2025),
which could be deemed, despite its length, a road map towards operationalizing the human
rights system in Jordan, as it includes a concrete framework that obligates the government to
attain a series of key objectives related to human rights. The Plan includes the following
main components: the political, civil, economic, social, and cultural rights as well the rights
of the most vulnerable groups. The NCHR reports and recommendations were considered
as one of the key reference documents for the elaboration of the Plan.
Amendments on the NCHR Law No (51) for the Year 2006
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