In April 22,the UNFPA Jordan country program in coordination with Plan International and the Institute for Family Health (IFH) Noor Al Hussein Foundation commissioned a rapid assessment of the COVID

This article addresses teh issue of women in 'protective custody'. Where most of the women in protective custody were involved in cases of rape, adultery and incest, and, fearing for their lives, left

This article discusses economic violence against women and some indicators of economic violence against women in Jordan according to the Jordan Women's Solidarity Institute Association (Tadamun - SIGI

To explore women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV) and their determinants,as well as to document the prevalence of various types of violence among women attending public health

This study systematically and comprehensively engages with the existing data and a wide range of respondents to understand why child marriages happen and what can be done to limit marriages under the

Over 300 men, women and children staged a sit-in near the Prime Ministry to call for better legal and social protection for women subjected to domestic violence. The sit-in, under the theme “Enough”

This report documents how women accused of being “absent from home”,eloping,or having sex outside marriage,risk imprisonment without charge or trial in Jordan if male family members complain to the

This summary provides a comparison of the laws identified in Jordan country profile with international human rights standards, the recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Violence