The First Shadow Report
Submitted by the Jordanian National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) in Response to
the Human Rights Committee List of Issues in Relation to the Fifth Periodic Report of
Jordan
Adopted by the Committee at its 119th Session (6-29 March 2017)
(121 Session)
NCHR Profile: The National Center for Human Rights is a public-benefit national
institution, endowed with administrative and financial autonomy, and with legal
personality. It exercises all of its human rights-related functions and activities,
including monitoring, and receiving complaints, by virtue its Law no. (51) for the
year of 2006 as amended, with full independence. The Center is accredited by the
Subcommittee for Accreditation (SCA) of the GANHRI with "A status".
The Center is mandated to protect human rights, promote its culture, monitor
its status, provide legal consultations and assistance where needed, take
administrative and legal measures for addressing complaints relating to human
rights violations and transgressions in order to bring an end to such violations and
eliminate their effects,
prepare studies and research; provide information; hold
seminars and training courses; run campaigns and declare positions; publish data
and printed materials; and prepare reports on the human rights situation, in addition
to election observation and preparing shadow reports.
NCHR
Telephone Number
(00962-6-5932257)
Fax:
(00962-6-5930072)
Toll-free number
(080022320)
Website: www. Nchr.org.jo
Email: mail@nchr.org.jo
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