Jordan
Content featuring Jordan
Child marriage in the Middle-East and North Africa
This study explores child marriage in the Middle-East and North Africa and provides recommendations on how to better address it.
Interagency gender-based violence case management guidelines in humanitarian settings
These guidelines aim to provide standards for good practice to ensure gender-based violence survivors receive quality care in humanitarian settings.
Early marriage and pregnancy among Syrian adolescent girls in Jordan: do they have a choice?
This short editorial is a call to action on preventing and responding to child marriage and early pregnancy among the Syrian refugee community in Jordan.
The role of identification in ending child marriage
This report looks at how well-functioning civil registration systems, providing girls with effective birth certificates, play a crucial role in enforcing child marriage laws.
Data sources
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- Department of Statistics and ICF International, Jordan Population and Family Health Survey 2017-18, https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-fr346-dhs-final-reports.cfm (accessed September 2020).
- European Commission, Jordan, [website], 2019, https://ec.europa.eu/echo/where/middle-east/jordan (accessed March 2020).
- Gender & Adolescence: Global Evidence, Adolescent girls in Jordan. The State of the Evidence, 2017, https://www.gage.odi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/GAGE-Jordan-SA-WEB.pdf (accessed March 2020).
- Girl Summit 2014, The Girl Summit Charter on Ending FGM and Child, Early and Forced Marriage, [website], 2015, https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/459236/Public_Girl_Summit_Charter_with_Signatories.pdf (accessed March 2020).
- Higher Population Council, A Study on Child Marriage in Jordan, 2017, https://reliefweb.int/report/jordan/policy-brief-child-marriage-jordan-2017 (accessed March 2020).
- Hutchinson, A and Terre des Hommes, Mapping responses to Child Marriage in Jordan: Reflections from practitioners and policymakers, 2018, https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/3.%20Mapping%20responses%20to%20Child%20Marriage%20in%20Jordan_EN.pdf (accessed September 2021).
- International Catholic Migration Commission, Child Marriage in Jordan Report on Project Findings and Recommendations, 2021, https://www.icmc.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Child-Marriage-in-Jordan_FINAL.pdf (accessed September 2021).
- Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Jordan Response Plan for the Syrian Refugee Crisis (2017-2019), 2016, https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/JRP%2B2017-2019%2B-%2BFull%2B-%2B%28June%2B30%29.pdf (accessed April 2020).
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- Save the Children, Too young to wed: the growing problem of child marriage among Syrian girls in Jordan, 2014, https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/resource-centre/young-wed-growing-problem-child-marriage-among-syrian-girls-jordan/ (accessed March 2020).
- UN ESCWA, Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings in the Arab Region, 2015, https://www.unescwa.org/publications/child-marriage-humanitarian-settings-arab-region-dynamics-challenges-and-policy-options (accessed April 2020).
- UN General Assembly, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Jordan, 2013, p.18, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/JOIndex.aspx (accessed March 2020).
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- UN General Assembly, National Report Submitted in Accordance with Paragraph 15(a) of the Annex to Human Rights Council Resolution 5/1* Jordan, 2018, https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G18/256/58/PDF/G1825658.pdf?OpenElement (accessed September 2021).
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- UNHCR, Jordan, 2021, https://reporting.unhcr.org/jordan (accessed October 2021).
- UN Women, Gender-based Violence and Child Protection among Syrian refugees in Jordan, with a focus on Early Marriage, 2013, http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2013/7/report-web%20pdf.pdf?la=en&vs=1458 (accessed March 2020).
- UNICEF, A study on early marriage in Jordan, 2014, https://www.unicef.org/media/files/UNICEFJordan_EarlyMarriageStudy2014-email.pdf (accessed March 2020).
- UNICEF, University of Edinburgh and the Higher Population Council, A Qualitative Study on the Underlying Social Norms and Economic Causes that Lead to Child Marriage in Jordan, 2019, https://www.unicef.org/jordan/media/1796/file/Jordan-Reports.pdf (accessed September 2021).
- UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children 2021, 2021, https://www.unicef.org/media/108161/file/SOWC-2021-full-report-English.pdf (accessed October 2021).
- UNFPA-UNICEF, Child Marriage in the Context of COVID-19, 2021, https://www.unicef.org/mena/reports/child-marriage-context-covid-19 (accessed September 2021).
- United Nations, Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, [website] https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg5 (accessed February 2020).