1. Supporting the National Plan for the promotion and protection of Human Rights,
previously proposed by JNCHR, which was included as a recommendation in
JNCHR’s 9th Annual Report’s recommendations.
2. Training and synthesizing government institutions in the area of human rights.
3. Enhancing the culture of human rights at the family, home, school and university
levels.
4. Training and synthesizing workers at government institutions in the area of human
rights.
5. Sensitizing local communities on human rights and providing human rights training
and education to the different groups in the community.
6. Raising public awareness of human rights.
A Comprehensive Human Rights National Plan
The year 2014 witnessed a better response to the repeated recommendations enshrined in
the JNCHR reports that are endorsed the CSOs, in connection to the need to develop a
comprehensive national plan for human rights. Accordingly, the government formed a
committee to elaborate a comprehensive national plan for human rights under the
chairmanship of the Minister of Justice and the membership of the Secretary General of the
Legislation and Opinion Bureau, and the Commissioner-General for Human Rights, the
Government Coordinator for Human Rights and Secretary General of the Jordanian
National Commission for Women's Affairs, and the Press Syndicate Head (Member of the
JNCHR Board of Trustees). The center has played a key role in the initial consultations
with the partners in the development of the content and axes of the plan; as it organized, at
its premises, many consultative meetings about the plan, and the center staff members
participated actively in the formulation of the plan’s themes and activities, as well as in
stressing the role of international conventions and treaties in the national legislation, and
highlighting gaps and shortcomings in the national legislation related to the fundamental
rights and freedoms as per stipulated in the relevant international standards. The
recommendations contained in the Center’s periodic reports formed a significant reference
for the team, who took the charge of elaborating of the initial draft plan, which included the
following main axes:
1. The civil and political rights axis.
2. The economic, social and cultural rights axis.
3. The most vulnerable groups axis.
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