{"id":2576,"date":"2021-06-23T10:15:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T07:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2023-03-21T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T12:25:21","slug":"2576","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2021\/06\/23\/2576\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jordanian Teachers\u2019 Syndicate and Human Rights Defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Report-JTS-David-Lane-1.pdf\">here<\/a> to download a copy of our research report.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) have received renewed attention in the past few decades. This report will be about the recent events in Jordan surrounding the Jordanian Teachers\u2019\u2019 Syndicate (JTS). The Jordanian Teachers\u2019 Syndicate is Jordan\u2019s main Teachers\u2019\u2019 trade union. It was established in 2011 and has around 140,000 members. The JTS became especially relevant after it called a strike in September 2019, the country\u2019s largest public sector strike, which disrupted learning for around 1.5 million students. The main demand behind these protests were the stagnating wages within the public sector. This report will attempt to answer the following question: can teachers in Jordan and the JTS be considered Human Rights Defenders (HRDs), attending to internationally recognised criteria for HRD status as gathered in the Universal Declaration on HRDs? Despite the fact that some may regard their demands as illegitimate in the context of the current economic stagnation in Jordan and the common accusation of being motivated by political Islam, this report argues that the members of the JTS are a notable example of HRDs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Report-JTS-David-Lane-1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Report JTS David Lane<\/a>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em>Feature image retrieved from the BBC<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to download a copy of our research report. Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) have received renewed attention in the past few decades. This report will be about the recent events in Jordan surrounding the Jordanian Teachers\u2019\u2019 Syndicate (JTS). 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It was established in 2011 and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Jordanian Teachers\u2019 Syndicate and Human Rights Defenders - Amman Center for Human Rights Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2021\/06\/23\/2576\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Jordanian Teachers\u2019 Syndicate and Human Rights Defenders - Amman Center for Human Rights Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Click here to download a copy of our research report. 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