ACHRS Intern Represents the Center at the 56th Session of the Human Rights Council

Our intern, Yasmine Sami, traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to represent the Center at the 56th session of the Human Rights Council.

This session was marked by Jordan’s 4th Cycle of its Universal Periodic Review.

Under the name of ACHRS, Yasmine had the opportunity to give a 2 minutes speech to the attention of the Jordanian ambassador to the UN.

She was keen to emphasize several points relating to the human rights situation in Jordan, including :
– Freedom of expression and the repression of demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine,
– Press rights and the unlawful detention of journalists,
– Academic freedom and the right to join a union as an academic,
– Participation and more particularly the participation of women in the public sphere.

Yasmine also attended Saudi Arabia’s UPR as well as several other countries’ review.