AMMAN
— The National Center for Human Rights (NCHR) has put forward
recommendations to safeguard girls' rights and enhance their role in building
and developing society, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
اضافة اعلان
The
NCHR said in a statement on Monday that the International Day of the Girl Child
is an opportunity to highlight the status of girls in local communities and the
key challenges they face in order to come up with proposals to build their capacities
"so that they can contribute alongside men in building an inclusive
society based on humanitarian values."
The
statement said there is no religious or legal basis to differentiate between
human beings based on gender, noting that Jordanian law protects girls based on
Article 6 of the constitution. The statement emphasized that Jordanians are
equal before the law in rights and obligations.
The
constitution had also underlined the protection of the family, maternity, and
childhood from violence and exploitation added the statement.
The NCHR referred to international conventions and agreements, which call for
paying attention to the girl child and equating her with the male child in all
rights in line with the principle of equality outlined in the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, which Jordan had ratified and published in its official
gazette.
The
center called for protecting girls from violations they might face, including
denying them education, marrying them off before the age of eighteen,
exploiting them in beggary and hard labor, exposing them to violence in all its
forms inside and outside the family, or depriving them of the right to play and
entertainment.
The
statement called on governmental and non-governmental organizations and civil
society institutions to step up their efforts to preserve girls' rights through
awareness-raising programs on the rights of girls that target them and families
across the Kingdom, particularly in remote regions and areas with poor
services.
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