AmmanNet - Ezz Edian El Natour With the Islamic State (IS)- also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)’s occupation of the Iraqi city of Mosul in mid-June, there has been much concern

Swedish Ambassador Helena Gröndahl Rietz and a high level delegation from the Swedish Development Agency (Sida) visited a community-based radio station in the Jordan Valley Friday and met with

The Jordanian government has confiscated nearly 219,000 Syrian identity papers, in violation of international agreements. The Jordanian Directorate of Syrian Refugee Affairs acknowledges exceptional

British ambassador Peter Millet, in a visit to Amman, emphasized that Jordan’s security and solving the Palestinian refugee problem is the most important issue for Britain in the Israeli-Palestinian

Walid Kurdi, former CEO of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC) and relative of the royal family, is back in the spotlight, after fleeing from Jordan in the wake of the embezzlement accusations

- Only 5 out of 17,000 cases considered by family reconciliation committees since 2008 - Law on Protection from Domestic Violence failing to protect the family - Laws in contradiction with separation

An investigation by Radio Al Balad has revealed that nearly 12,000 cases of family violence have occurred without follow up by the ministry of social affairs since 1998. Social departments exist in 10

Originally published by International Media Support. I still remember vividly the week after the eruption of the so called Mohammad cartoon crisis [cartoon drawings published by the Danish newspaper

- In the last five years, punishments for 156 cases of rape and indecent assault have been dropped on account of the perpetrator’s marrying his victim. - Children born from rape have no lineage record