House human rights committee debates ICPPED’s ratification

Lower House’s Public Freedoms and Human Rights Committee discussed on Wednesday, the issue of the Kingdom’s signing and ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED), which entered into force on December 2010.

Attended by State Minister for Legal Affairs, Mahmoud Kharabsheh, the committee’s head, MP Raed Zahrawi, said this debate comes to find out reasons behind the Kingdom’s non-ratification of the ICPPED, which was opened for signature on February 2007.

The committee’s members, for their part, called on examining ICPPED’s importance and how would it serve Jordanians at home and abroad.

Responding to the lawmakers’ comments, the minister said Jordan’s Constitution’s articles cover ICPPED-based aspects , especially Article 8, adding that freedoms and rights in Jordan are “protected.”

The minister ruled out any reasons not to sign the convention as Jordan doesn’t suffer from enforced disappearances.

Source: Jordan News Agency

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