Enhancing Protection for Migrant Workers and Victims of Trafficking: A Package of Legislative Reforms to Fulfill Jordan’s International Commitments and Economic Modernisation Vision
This paper proposes a package of legislative reforms to strengthen the protection of victims
of trafficking and forced labour in Jordan and address two structural gaps that impede
justice and deterrence: (1) The subordination of fundamental rights in Article 12(b) of
the Anti-Trafficking Law to the discretionary phrase “where possible”; and (2) The absence
of a separate criminalisation of forced/compulsory labour in the Penal Code, which in practice
leads to unequal protection, impunity, and a decline in international indicators.
Two years after the launch of the national referral mechanism in October 2022, which was presented at the time as a qualitative shift in combating human trafficking and coordinating official and civil
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In a Jordanian factory, Bahaa* (27) was doing his routine work when he became exhausted and tired, which cost him two fingers after they were caught in the production machine he was working on. His
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Syrian shepherds working in remote areas of the Badia desert earn low wages and live in isolation from their families, in difficult conditions without electricity and lacking health and educational
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