This 23rd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2012. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year;; often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.

This report was jointly prepared by the Jordanian National Commission for Women (JOHUD);; the Jordan Hashemite Fund for Human development/Regional Economic Empowerment of Women Project (REEWP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The report discusses the right to inheritance and debates a number of issues including the provisions concerning women's rights to inheritance in Islam;; the legal framework of the women's rights to inheritance in Jordan;; the guarantees of these rights and finally the reality of the women's right to inheritance in Jordan. The report concludes with recommendations.