Jordan Human Rights Violations

Human right violation in Jordan

Human rights are the right that everyone should has no matter who they are, whatever their national, gender, regious, color, language or another status. Everyone is born in free and equal. Moreover, we all have their own ideas which means everyone should be treat in the same way. Nowadays, we have United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights as international laws for protecting our rights (The United Nation, n.d.). However, Jordan still have violations of human right. Jordan has been reached in the list of the highest slavery in the world’s list. It is in 57 out of 167 countries (Azzeh, 2014). Thus, there are a lot of refugees from many countries around Jordan. All these refugees were forced to work overtime,

Moreover, there are huge number of labourers continue moving in Jordan. That might be the result of many worker issues in here which treated them badly such as restriction on movement, physical abuse and threat of imprisonment. All of them are low-skilled and cheap more likely to sexual harassment, trafficking. Some females also have to work harder twice, have less property than men and cannot get higher position in their jobs (The UN Refugee Agency, 2014). They were treated in different way and they do not have ability to change their employers. However, Jordan is still a target for them even lacks of rain and has high amount of refugees. They also have really serious problems with food and water supply, especially people who live in rural areas have been suffering and facing with less natural resource alone and cannot get enough government service. The most effective group is farmers because less than 5 percent of land can plant crops. It leads them to have low quality products, less crops, income and living with extremly diffcult condition. These are the reasons why they were saperated with wide space by rich people between West and

These workers are formed as low-skilled migrants and unemployment from their countries. Some of them were forced with condition after they arrived in Jordan. “Including, illegal withholding of passport, non-payment, restriction on movement, threats of imprisonment and physical abuse” (The UN Refugee Agency, 2014). Egypt workers are the largest source workers in Jordan. They were forced to work in construction or agricultural sectors, the sam thing with Syrian refugee children. The other countries worked in factory or garment industry. All those products seem to be as “produced using modern slavery”(Azzeh, 2014). In 2012, Burmese workers were forced to work in garment industry which is 63 percent of women and most female workers risk to sexual harassment (The UN Refugee Agency, 2014). Some girls were forced to drop out school and start working in Jordan. They were grounded and risk to be slave. It infracts to constitutionally-protected which is related to freedom from fear that employers cannot do whatever they want to their worker and forced them. Those actions did not follow The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There are article 1 that everyone are born equal, article 4 is no one should be serves as a slave and article 19 is everybody can express their own thought. Therefore, everyone should