This supplementary submission highlights select realities for children, and in particular girls, in Jordan based on recent field research and documentation across the country. The submission strives to spotlight several deep and underlying concerns which have gone unaddressed or insufficiently addressed by the government since this Committee’s last review of Jordan’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Child (CRC) in 26 during the Committee’s 43rd Session.

This submission is based on original research and analysis by four Jordanian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Jordan, including two leading national development and human rights organizations, a regional network of women legal professionals, and a service provider NGO in central Jordan. The contributing organizations are the Arab Women’s Legal Network (AWLN), Information and Research Center (IRC), The Queen Zein Al Sharaf Institute for Development (ZENID), and the Family Guidance and Awareness Center, Zarqa (FGAC).