AMMAN Deputising for Her Majesty Queen Rania, Minister of State for Legal Affairs Wafa Bani Mustafa on Tuesday attended the launch ceremony of the digital national platform “We are all on the board”, which aims to empower qualified women to assume high leadership positions in the private sector.The platform also seeks to empower women’s economic participation and enhance the
AMMAN Debate over the draft children rights law for 2022 has caused concern among some MPs due to its importance in safeguarding children’s rights, prompting the Lower House referred the bill to the joint parliamentary women and family legal affairs committee. The House of Representatives held an extraordinary session on Wednesday to debate some bills, including the draft
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AMMAN The Jordan Times senior reporter Rana Husseini on Tuesday released the Arabic version of her book “Years of Struggle: The Women’s Movement in Jordan”. The book’s publication is supported by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Jordan office. This is Husseini’s second book after “Murder in the Name of Honour”, published in 2009.“The main idea is to pass-on reliable
AMMAN Over 60 per cent of women who are assuming leadership and political posts in Jordan reported being subjected to political and cyber violence, a local study revealed on Tuesday.The study, titled “Violence against women in the Political and Public Sphere”, was prepared by the Jordanian National Commission for Women (JNCW).The respondents consisted of 287 women from