The Jordanian Women’s Union (JWU) is in the final stages of obtaining official approval of its shelter for abused women.
The shelter provides security for abused women along with their children, and it offers vocational training and social, psychological, family, legal, health and religious counselling.
The shelter has helped over 1,000 women and their children since its establishment in 1999.
Jordanian Women’s Union is a partner organisation to KVINFO.
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160 housewives have received training on basic plumbing from the Jordanian Business Women’s Forum (JBWF).
Hayat Bakir, director of the training project at the JBWF, says:
"Female plumbers in our community are not common... But maybe the fact that many housewives face plumbing problems on a daily basis and can’t allow a [male] plumber inside their houses in the absence of their husbands, should give rise to more female plumbers in Jordan."
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“We realize that women in Jordan still face many problems and that there are discriminatory clauses that have to be addressed and we need the (women’s, ed.) movement’s knowledge and experience in this regard.” With this statement, MP Falak Jamaani invited Jordanian women to list their demands for issues to be fought for in Parliament. Jamaani is one of 18 women in the 150-member Lower House in the Kingdom.
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The Sisterhood Is Global Institute/Jordan (SIGI-Jordan) on Sunday said women’s poor representation as leaders and members of political parties will adversely reflect on their chances to win parliamentary seats at the national level.
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Amid worries that the Arab Spring may give way to political Islam and set back the cause of women’s rights, Queen Noor of Jordan said Tuesday that it was too soon to give up hope that revolutions in the region would ultimately yield social progress.
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Transitions taking place in the region are igniting debate on the need for Arab women to seize the opportunity to push for their rights and ensure their engagement in the decision-making process, researchers said on Monday. In light of fears that the Arab Spring is “leaving women out in the cold and failing to make them reap its gains”, platforms to debate gender equality are more important than ever, they added in a seminar titled “Women Making Change”.
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Fifty-nine newly appointed judges, including 31 women, will receive training on the profession's code of ethics, human rights and approaches for handling gender-sensitive cases under a new project implemented by the Arab Women's Legal Network (AWLN).
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On a warm day late last month a crowd filed into a white tent outside the royal palaces in Amman to hear a much-anticipated speech by King Abdullah II on the country’s political future. Although the invitees included various dignitaries — former politicians, tribal leaders, journalists, even Islamists — they included only a few women: and when the men interrupted the speech to chant loyalty slogans, those few seemed to disappear from sight entirely.
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"Time and time again, media outlets conjure images of Arab women who need saving and empowering via the education and development initiatives of the Western world and international organisations such as the World Bank and the United Nations. Fida Adely's close-focus examination of the education of young women in the Middle East moves away from such generalisations and stereotypes, and instead thoughtfully analyses the nuances and complexities of the everyday lives of a group of young women at al-Khatwa Secondary School for Girls in Bawadi al-Naseem, Jordan."
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The “overarching” issues of gender equality and women’s rights will be the focus of an international conference, slated to open in Amman next Sunday. The 11th Conference of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC) will provide a platform for participants from all over the world to discuss means to empower women and enhance their participation in boosting the economy, organisers said.
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