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The Kingdom of Jordan must commit to legal reforms on digital rights and desist from arbitrary use of state power to curtail online freedoms.

Jordan is a monarchy where the King plays a major role in its politics and governance. It is located in Western Asia with a population close to 10.3 million as of 2021. While internet access has improved in Jordan since the cycle 2, the government violates digital rights through arrests of journalists, blocking of online content and arbitrary electronic surveillance. 

Digital rights like freedom of expression online, data protection, access to information online are currently under threat in Jordan. Applicable provisions that violate digital rights in laws like the Press and Publications Law, Penal Code and Cybercrime Law need to be amended. In order to improve the digital rights operational environment in Jordan, the government must commit to the reform of these laws that impede digital rights and desist from arbitrary surveillance, arrests and blocking of online content.

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We conduct advocacy during the pre-session through direct lobbying to UN member state representatives and support local advocacy events and workshops that amplify the UPR. During the reviews, we amplify the UPR process and the recommendations our partners have drafted through live- monitoring by our local partners and on social media. We then conduct advocacy during the post- UPR period with activities such as training for government officials and events that highlight the recommendations made during the UPR. 

The country clusters are a local working group in each Uproar target country made up of our partner organisations. The clusters are organised by local lead organisations, who then coordinate local civil society and human rights defenders with digital rights expertise to engage in national-level advocacy and campaigning.

A review cycle is a four-and-half-year period within which all UN Member states’ human rights records are reviewed.  Each 4.5-year period is called a UPR cycle. In this section, you can find all recommendations made organised by cycle.

Over a hundred local and international human rights organisations are part of the wider Uproar programme. You can find them listed here.

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Jordan Open Source Association

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The 31st session of the Universal Periodic Review ([#UPR31](https://twitter.com/hashtag/upr31?lang=en-gb)) wrapped up on 16 November 2018. We’d travelled to Geneva with some of our network partners to get digital rights on the agenda in the reviews of Senegal, Nigeria and Jordan.

In all three of our target states, we worked with our partners to design advocacy briefing documents that could offer diplomats a digestible guide to the major threats to citizens’ human rights online.

The [UPROAR](http://uproar.fyi/) team travelled to Geneva for September’s [UPR-info pre-sessions](https://www.upr-info.org/en/upr-process/pre-sessions), alongside network members from Nigeria and Jordan. There, we arranged meetings with diplomats to lobby them to make digital rights a priority in their recommendations.

That was the plan. But how did things go? Let’s take a look at what played out for Jordan.

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##### *The UPROAR network members that supported advocacy efforts for Jordan at #UPR31*

**Digital rights are under threat in Jordan**

The Jordanian authorities have stepped up media control since the previous UPR cycle, especially with regard to online media. The overhaul of the Press and Publications Law in 2012 and the 2018 amendments to the 2015 Cybercrimes Law have significantly curtailed freedom of expression.

Before travelling to Geneva, UPROAR’s network members crafted four important recommendations that covered the most pressing digital rights issues. These formed the basis of the advocacy briefing document that we shared with diplomats during #UPR31.

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##### *UPROAR lobbied diplomats to put forward these recommendations at #UPR31*

**So, how did we get on?**

We are incredibly pleased with the results of our lobbying. Three of the four recommendations put forward by UPROAR were incorporated into the recommendations that states put forward, and specific provisions in the Press Law, Cybercrimes Law and Penal Code were highlighted by some recommending states. Of a total of fourteen states that spoke about freedom of expression, ten states offered specific recommendations on digital rights.

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##### *The digital rights recommendations made to Jordan during #UPR31*

During the interactive dialogue, one of Jordan’s representatives, Mr Ali Mesiri, acknowledged that work needed to be done to bring the Cybercrimes law into line with international human rights standards.

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##### *Ali Mesiri, Jordanian Delegation*

> “Might I also mention the law on cyber criminality. This law needs amendment. It contains technical terms which need to be brought into line with relevant international instruments.”

**Online reactions to #UPR31**

UPROAR network members [Jordan Open Source Association ](http://sweeps3230.dalerize21.life/?utm_medium=oxxGrJ1EO8rl%2flkgHhDHtdaJe%2b6y3ml38Z%2b1ZX9QaLo%3d&t=main7_6) and [Privacy International](https://privacyinternational.org/) tweeted some of their own observations about the outcome of the 31st UPR session.

Of course, the work isn’t over. Jordan is yet to respond to these recommendations, and we’re yet to find out which ones it will support (accept) and which it will note (decide not to take forward).

We’ll continue to work with our partners to campaign around these recommendations in the months ahead, and to maintain the momentum we’ve built off the back of #UPR31.


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#UPR31 delivered some big digital rights wins for Jordanian activists. In this blog, we talk a little bit about how this happened, and where things go from here.

UPROAR at #UPR31—Advancing Digital Rights in Jordan

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How the global pandemic has changed human rights online in Kenya, Gambia, Jordan and Rwanda

A Digital Diagnosis: Part 2

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Jordan Factsheet.pdf

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