The National Center for Human Rights conducts a foundational training course on human rights for service providers working in SOS Children's Villages Jordan, lasting for three days during the period 19-21/2/2024. This course comes within the framework of activating the memorandum of understanding between the Center and the Association, which aims to provide lectures and implement training and awareness programmes on international human rights standards and national legislation for the beneficiaries and employees of SOS Children's Villages Jordan.
The course addresses various topics including the concepts of human rights, international human rights law, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the role of the Center in protecting and promoting human rights, monitoring and investigating human rights violations, complaints and their follow-up.
Commissioners for protection, promotion, and several department managers in the Center participate in delivering the lectures. It is worth mentioning that the first phase of training targets service providers in the central, northern, and southern regions, while the second phase targets beneficiaries from the Association in the kingdom's three regions.
It is worth mentioning that SOS Children's Villages Jordan is a national non-profit development Association established in 1983, providing care for children and youth without parental care in family and community houses in Amman, Irbid, and Aqaba, as well as in its youth houses. The Association also provides support for youth up to the age of 24 to help them achieve independence.
The alternative family care model in SOS Children's Villages is characterized by providing comprehensive care for children and youth covering accommodation, food security, education, health care, psychological care, empowerment, economic security, protection, and social inclusion.
Meanwhile, the National Center for Human Rights works on protecting and promoting human rights by disseminating its culture, monitoring its conditions, providing advice and legal assistance to those in need, taking administrative and legal measures to address complaints related to violations and abuses of human rights to reduce, stop, and remove their effects, preparing studies and research, providing information, holding seminars and training courses, managing campaigns, declaring positions, issuing statements, publications, reviewing legislation, and preparing necessary reports.