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Jordan

Regional group:

Asia – Pacific Group (APG)

Council member:

2006-2007

2007-2008

2008-2009

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Council Bureau membership:	Vice-president (2006-2007)
Coordinator of regional group:	1 (2013)
Voluntary financial contribution to OHCHR (2023) :

Other HRC positions:	Member of Consultative Group (2013)
OHCHR presence:	Human Rights Adviser
NHRI accreditation status:	A

National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRF): Unknown

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Effects of terrorism on the enjoyment of all human rights; Human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic; Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: strengthening human rights through enhanced protection, support and empowerment of victims of trafficking, especially women and children; Situation of human rights in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

Voting record

Since it first became a member of the Council in 2006, Jordan has (in the absence of consensus) tended to vote in favour of resolutions tabled under item 4 (situations that require the Council’s attention). In 2009-2010 it voted against resolutions on the situation in Sudan. Jordan abstains during voting on resolutions on the situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran. During votes on item 7 resolutions (human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories), Jordan has voted in favour on every occasion. On item 10 resolutions (capacity-building), Jordan has joined consensus on all resolutions except for one that was voted on during the period of its membership: on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Jordan voted in favour). For thematic resolutions dealing with civil and political rights, Jordan has generally joined consensus. Where there has been a vote, it has usually voted in favour. Notwithstanding, it voted against a 2011 resolution on sexual orientation. For thematic resolutions dealing with economic, social and cultural rights, Jordan either joined consensus on, or has voted in favour of, all adopted texts.

HRC participation

During HRC general discussions, panel debates and interactive dialogues with the Special Procedures, during the past three years, either as an HRC member or not, the State has joined:

Regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 98

284

Subregional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 46

107

Political group
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 109

Cross-regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 61

Other joint
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 5

HRC member empty chair?

Overall, as a HRC member, has participated in more than 10% of panel discussions, general debates and interactive dialogues.

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Completed
Invitation sent by the State not (yet) accepted by the SP
Accepted / date set
Visit request by the SP and not (yet) accepted by the State
Postponed / cancelled

Longest visit request not (yet) accepted by the State >
SR on freedom of expression, 2014

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Ratification status
Party Not Party
Individual complaint procedure accepted.
Reporting status

Submitted on time
Submitted late
Not applicable

On schedule
Overdue (outstanding)

CAT

ICCPR

CED

CEDAW

CERD

ICESCR

CRC

CRPD

Most overdue report

ICESRC
18.58 Years

OP-CAT

Ratified

NPM established

Universal Periodic Review

Reported

(2009, 2013, 2018)

Mid-term report

Level of delegation

Minister

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 45 / 192

2^nd cycle: 42 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Cited in the Secretary General’s reports on 'alleged reprisals for cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights' (2010-2023)?

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 4

Jordan tabled voluntary pledges and commitments in support for its candidacy for membership for the period 2009-2011 on 17 April 2009.

In the document, Jordan describes the actions that it has taken to integrate international human rights norms and principles into national law and practice, and also outlines its cooperation with the UN human rights system.

The document only offered 4 concrete pledges, including: to host an annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions; to submit all outstanding periodic reports to relevant committees; and to continue to implement Special Procedures recommendations.

An analysis of steps taken by Jordan in fulfilment of its international pledges shows that it has presented 2 of its periodic treaty reports on time, while three are overdue and one was submitted late (for the current reporting cycles). One report is more than 12 years overdue.

Jordan

Asia – Pacific Group (APG)

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Voting record

HRC participation

HRC member empty chair?

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Universal Periodic Review

Participation in other reviews 1st cycle: 45 / 192

2nd cycle: 42 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 4

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 45 / 192

2^nd cycle: 42 / 192