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Ammon News - Jordan is participating in the two-day twenty-first session of the Arab Commission on Human Rights that started Monday at the Arab League HQ in Cairo to discuss Jordan's reports on human rights in the country.

Jordan's Permanent Representative to the Arab League, Ambassador Amjad Adaileh, said that Jordan was the first Arab country to ratify the Arab Charter on Human Rights document and the first to submit its first report to the Commission after the Charter entered into force.

He noted that Jordan believes in the "nobility" of the goals and purposes of the Charter, adding that the Jordanian Constitution is an "advanced" document on human rights and fundamental freedoms.

He added that Jordan takes its obligations under the Arab Charter for Human Rights "very seriously" and considers the mechanism for submitting periodic reports to the Charter Commission an "important" opportunity to review its relevant national policies and procedures and leverage the evaluation of Commission members to develop Jordanian laws on human rights.