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AMMAN (Petra) - The Amman Chamber of Commerce (ACC) has recently signed an agreement with the Euro-Mediterranean Association for Cooperation and Development (EMA) to strengthen cooperation in the fields of trade and investment between Jordan and Germany. Signed by ACC Chairman Riad Saifi and EMA’s President Horst Siedentopf on the sidelines of the Hamburg Logistics Forum, the agreement seeks to enhance business cooperation through exchanging ex....
The General Assembly held the Annual General meeting for the Arab Orphan Committee by the president of the Executive Committee Tayseer Kna'an. The partcipants discussed the activities of the Assembly in Jordan and Palestine and the most important development projects
The Committee of Training Courses and Continuing Education at Bar Association held a seminar about the environmental legislation between the legal concepts and practical application, it was attended by a large number of lawyers and those who are interested in the environmental field.
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Activists commend Jordan’s efforts in human rights sphere
AMMAN — Rana Husseini - A UN official and an international activist, who are in Jordan to follow up on UN recommendations on the status of human rights in the Kingdom, on Thursday praised the country’s efforts in this field.
“We are here on a mission to observe Jordan’s implementation of the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) recommendations,” said Liliana Trillo Diaz, human rights officer at the Centre for Civil and Political Rights in Geneva, who is on a three-day visit to the country along with Cees Flinterman, an HRC member, upon an invitation from the Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies.
Diaz told reporters that they met with representatives of the relevant ministries, civil society and diplomatic missions.
She said their visit focused on three articles that are part of a list of 20 recommendations suggested by the HRC for Jordan in October 2010.
The articles include providing more independence for the National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), ending the practice of administrative detention by amending the Law on Crime Prevention, and abolishing the State Security Court.
“We are hopeful that the government will amend the Law on Crime Prevention and release all prisoners or speed up their judicial process,” Diaz told reporters.
She noted that the recommendations suggested more financial and administrative independence for the NCHR, said Diaz.
Flinterman described the meeting with the stakeholders as "very positive" and said Jordanian officials were cooperative and promised to respond to the HRC recommendations in an official report.