CRC/C/OPAC/JOR/CO/1
Below is a short summary of some of the key issues from the Committee on the Rights of the Child's 66th session concluding observations for Jordan. Read the full text, and you can find other documents related to the Committee's 66th session (including alternative reports submitted by NGOs and the Committee's concluding observations for other States reviewed in this session) on the Committee’s session page.
Voluntary recruitment: The Committee recommends that the State party review and raise the age for voluntary recruitment of public security officers to 18 years in order to promote and strengthen the protection of children through an overall higher legal standard.
Human rights and peace education: The Committee recommends that the State party include mandatory human rights and peace education in the curricula of all schools, including military schools.
Criminal legislation and regulations in force: The Committee urges the State party to undertake a comprehensive review of its legislation in order to fully harmonise it with the principles and provisions of the Optional Protocol and explicitly prohibit and criminalise the recruitment and use of children under 18 years of age in hostilities by armed forces and non-State armed groups and the recruitment and use of children by security companies. The Committee urges the State party to ensure domestic regulatory legislation on the oversight and accountability of private military and security companies.
Recruitment and use of children by non-State armed groups: The Committee urges the State party to establish effective measures in cooperation with relevant international organisations to protect children from being recruited and sent in neighbouring countries for use in armed conflict. To this aim, the State party should organise awareness raising campaigns.
Asylum-seeking and refugee children: The Committee urges the State party to ensure the full protection of Palestinian children and their families fleeing Syria and to ensure full respect for the fundamental principle of non-refoulement, including non-rejection at frontiers. The State party should ensure full access to fair and effective procedures for determining status to all refugee and asylum seeking children and their families without discrimination. The State party should also strengthen assistance and support provided to refugee and asylum seeking children who may have been involved in conflict or subject to conflict-related trauma and displacement.
