Mizan: The release of inmates was a necessity to curb corona outbreak
Jordanian authorities have released a large group of inmates in an effort to limit the…
Category: Middle East and North Africa
Mizan: Surge in complaints about domestic violence during the corona crisis
The quarantine results in increased gender-based violence in several parts of the world. Also in…
Proud partner of DIGNITY: As the first country in the Arab region, Jordan’s civil society got access to the prisons
For almost 10 years DIGNITY has cooperated with the National Center for Human Rights (NCHR)…
DIGNITY conducts its first training in therapy for traumatised children: “the therapy came as a saviour”
For the first time DIGNITY teaches middle eastern psychologists how to treat traumatised children. A…
Strengthening the documentation of torture
DIGNITY helps civil society in North Africa to document torture and strengthen advocacy efforts About…
Does Jordan live up to the international standards of human rights?
Jordan is in these days being examined by the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee (ICCPR)….
‘Pre-trial detention should always be the exception and never the rule’, Walid Al-Adwan, Jordanian Bar Association
PUBLISHED 09.10.2017 In Jordan, a high number of imprisoned are pre-trial detainees, however, recent numbers show…
Civil society advocates for change through UN committees
How can various UN mechanisms be used as an instrument in the fight against torture?…
‘If the family gets redress and compensation it will be a victory for all of Jordan’
PUBLISHED 10.05.2017 The lawyer Haya Al Abbady represents the family of a deceased victim in a…
Statement of support for our Egyptian partner El Nadeem
PUBLISHED 10.02.2017 For more than two decades El Nadeem has been providing rehabilitation to victims of…