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• Public Health and Gender Justice: Questions on the Efficacy of Official Responses

  Posted on December 13, 2020December 14, 2020 by rebecca saab saade

  Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early March of this year, the Jordanian government took strict measures, remarkably controlling the virus for months and limiting its spread. It meant imposing the Defence Law’s orders, applying a full curfew for weeks, then allowing some movement under strict and firm controls. The most crucial government decision to stop the pandemic involved the closure of Jordanian educational institutions, the suspension of flights, and shutting down border crossings.

• Sexual Harassment: The Hidden Barrier to Women’s Work in Jordan

  Posted on October 25, 2020October 22, 2020 by rebecca saab saade

  Written by Ansam Al Tammam and translated by Ghassan Makarem Salma Ahmad, a 24-year-old graphic designer, 1  graphic designer, quit her job without mentioning the reasons. But that was the only way for her to put an end to her manager’s harassment. “I kept trying to avoid him and being with him in the same […]

• Data Portraits of Working Women on Jordanian Social Media Networks

  Posted on October 25, 2020October 28, 2020 by rebecca saab saade

  Working women remain a controversy in the region, where experts ranging from psychologists to religious leaders can be heard on television and radio shows, attempting to justify, defend or condemn the presence of women in the workforce. Not having the lived experience of a woman in the Arab World is not uncommon among the invited public figures. Yet, whether with or against, they seem to be trusted with the “analysis” of a woman’s psyche, anatomy and “nature”, and these mechanisms’ “compatibility” with what it takes to get a job and sustain one.

• Economic Violence Against Women in Jordan

  Posted on October 25, 2020October 22, 2020 by rebecca saab saade

  Written by Hanaa al-Shloul and translated by Ghassan Makarem As long as the prevailing conflict in Arab societies remains economic, justice will be the only means for radical change, when women become unequivocally equal to men in the job market and the family. Thus, the Jordanian state and community organizations aim to achieve economic justice, […]

• Political Violence Against Women in Lebanon and Jordan

  Posted on January 12, 2020October 13, 2020 by rebecca saab saade

  How the harassment and threatening of female leaders dissuade other women from exercising their civil rights

• Surprise: Gender-Based Violence is also on Facebook!

  Posted on January 12, 2020February 12, 2020 by rebecca saab saade

  This article aims to give a glimpse into the lived experiences of Jordanian women online, particularly Facebook, as one of the most popular social media platforms in the country and the world. For this purpose, we initiated a conversation on a Jordanian, closed, women-only Facebook group. This article summarizes the patterns and stories shared by the women who responded to our inquiry. These testimonies were complemented with findings from studies and papers that show and clarify the patterns of harassment and online violence throughout the region and the world.

• Privacy protection as a core human rights issue for women in Jordan

  Posted on November 16, 2018November 22, 2018 by rebecca saab saade

  Last May, an anonymous group of Jordanian activists publicly issued what they titled “The Privacy Statement”. This statement primarily called for civil society and public support for a legal framework that would protect the privacy of all members of society, especially women. The statement was issued in the backdrop of a leaked recording that allegedly revealed a powerful official in the Jordan Royal Guard blackmailing and sexually assaulting a woman. The leak and subsequent discussions have illuminated the vulnerability of women in Jordanian society, and the resonance of the case is a testament to the prevalence of this issue. The female victim—despite being blackmailed and repeatedly threatened—was surprisingly regarded as the main offender since women are not supposed to talk to unfamiliar men in the first place, although in the case of this particular woman the details were not fully revealed and the public based their opinions—widely expressed on social media platforms—on conjecture and assumption.

• Jordanian feminist movement and the struggle for social and political change: achievements and challenges

  Posted on November 15, 2018November 22, 2018 by rebecca saab saade

  Most scholars and advocates would argue that the emergence of the Jordanian Women’s Movement dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. For example, Nicola Pratt, argues that “women in Jordan have a long history of public work which dates back prior to the founding of the Jordanian state in 1920s”,1 and this work in its early stages was limited to the provision of humanitarian assistance to poor and needy people in most parts of the Kingdom.

• Role of Facebook in Youth Participation in Local Elections in Jordan 2017

  Posted on November 14, 2018November 22, 2018 by rebecca saab saade

  On 15 August 2017, Jordanians participated in the first decentralized elections along with municipal elections. The occasion was considered a momentous political transformation, following calls by young people and civil society to distribute political and economic pressure equally among governorates instead of being concentrated in the capital. It also allowed young people over 25 to run as candidates for the very first time.