AMMAN — Responding to criticism,
Minister of State for Media Affairs Faisal Shboul said Friday that the government is not
withdrawing the child’s rights bill from the Lower House, media outlets
reported.
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In an interview with Jordan Television, Shboul
affirmed that the government has the right to amend, write off and change
articles in the proposed draft.
The government had stated that the child’s rights
bill was drafted in response to the recent Constitutional amendments, which
emphasize the need to protect children by creating legislation that regulates
the relationship between public and private bodies concerned with children, or
charged with providing services to them, in accordance with the legislation in
force.
In another development, Shboul said that the
government continues to study the establishment of a new city in central
Jordan, to accommodate the population increase.
He said that the proposal to build an administrative
capital goes back to 2017, and that while the idea was paused for a while, it
has been brought up for discussion recently.
The city will be integrated, smart and
technologically advanced, be of medium size, and be located between
Amman and
Zarqa to contain the exponential population increase, according to Shboul.
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