The migrant worker in Jordan situation report was issued in 2009. It presents an overview of the situation of migrant workers in Jordan and the main violations they are subject to. Additionally;; the report offers recommendations to national and international parties concerned with the migrant workers' rights.

يحتوي هذا التقرير وصفاً تفصيلياً لأحد سجون وكالة الاستخبارات المركزية السرية وذلك من خلال أحد المعتقلين الفلسطينين والذي تم الإفراج عنه. ويقدم التقرير أكثر الروايات شمولاً حتى الآن عن الحياة في بعض سجون وكالة الاستخبارات المركزية;; وكذلك معلومات عن 38 محتجزاً. ويوضح التقرير أن معاملة السجناء من قبل وكالة الاستخبارات المركزية يشكل ما يسمى بالاختفاء القسري;; وهي ممارسة محظور تماماً بموجب القانون الدولي.

This report is the second annual report of Tamkeen Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights. It addresses the status of both migrant domestic workers and migrant workers in Qualified Industrial Zones because these two categories are subject to recurrent abuses and are the most vulnerable group due to legislative reasons;; administrative practices and the actions of their employers.

This 66-page report documents the arbitrary arrest and abusive treatment of detainees held at the General Intelligence Department's (GID) central detention facility in Amman. The report finds that there is no clear basis in Jordanian law for the GID's law enforcement role;; and that detainees cannot seek an independent judicial review of the grounds for arrest and continued detention.

Since Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994;; there has been growing tension between the Jordanian government and the independent press;; particularly the kingdom's small-circulation weekly newspapers. Journalists and editors have been arrested;; detained and prosecuted for violations of both the penal code and provisions of the press and publications law of 1993. By the count of one Jordanian weekly newspaper;; since the law went into effect sixty-two cases have been brought against journalists and editors;; the overwhelming majority of them with weekly newspapers. Faced with public opposition to normalization of relations with Israel;; frustration about the implementation of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Authority;; and popular discontent with the state of the economy and high rates of unemployment and underemployment;; Jordanian authorities have clearly signaled a growing discomfort with the exercise of freedom of expression by both individual critics and the press.

Freedom of expression and press freedom are essential conditions for the conduct of free and fair elections. But in the pre-election period;; Jordanian authorities have used the laws in force;; and other means such as threats and intimidation by internal security forces and government officials;; to restrict free expression;; including press freedom;; in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR);; which Jordan has ratified. This report documents a series of actions taken by the government to tame the print media -- including the temporary closure of thirteen weekly newspapers in September -- and intimidate political critics into silence. Journalists and editors told Human Rights Watch that they have followed a stricter regime of self-censorship since the amendments to the press law were implemented in May 1997;; for fear of being subjected to heavy financial penalties mandated under the new law. In addition;; students;; writers;; and researchers have faced a variety of sanctions -- ranging from detention;; criminal prosecution;; and imprisonment to harassment;; job loss;; and blacklisting -- because they expressed views on political subjects that the government preferred remain off-limits. Such measures have created an atmosphere in which the right to free expression is perceived by many in Jordan as under siege.

يأتي هذا التقرير في اطار سلسلة التقارير الدورية التي يصدرها المرصد العمالي الاردني التابع لمركز الفينيق للدراسات الاقتصادية والمعلوماتية. حيث يستعرض هذا التقرير الظروف التي يعمل فيها العاملون في مؤسسة الموانئ من حيث الأجور والعلاوات;; والاسقرار الوظيفي;; ومدى توفر معايير الصحة والسلامة المهنية;; وغيرها من الحقوق العمالية الأساسية. واعتمد التقرير في اعداده على المنهج النوعي;; وذلك عبر اجراء المقابلات الشخصية مع العشرات من العاملين في المؤسسة;; إلى جانب مقابلة غالبية أعضاء اللجنة النقابية فيها;; بالإضافة إلى الزيارات الميدانية. وكما خلص التقرير بمجموعة من التوصيات التي تهدف إلى التخفيف من الانتهاكات التي يتعرض لها العاملون في هذه المؤسسة.

يقدم هذا التقرير المكون من 56 صفحة تفصيلاً حول كيفية قيام المحافظين وغيرهم من المسؤولين بالالتفاف حول أصول المحاكمات الجزائية;; وذلك عند احتجازهم اشخاص بموجب أمر اداري (الاحتجاز الاداري) دون مراجعة قضائية. وكما يبين الممارسات المستخدمة ضد ضحايا الجريمة;; وأعداء الشخصية والأشخاص الذين تم اخلاء سبيلهم من قبل المحاكم.