Important Documents

Documents listed here are key to understanding the rights for Persons with Disability as well as understanding the actual situation on the ground.

 

Here is the link for Law No. (20) for the Year 2017 - the Law on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act.

Here is the link for the shadow report for 2017 prepared by three Jordanian civil society organisations (CSOs) with support from the Swedish Development Partner- IM ,that submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in March, 2017. The three societies are: Information and Research Center - King Hussein Foundation (IRCKHF), Identity Center and “I am Human” Society for Rights of PWD. It involves monitoring the extent to which national strategies and programs include PWD-related issues, and reviewed actual practices by state institutions.