Judging by the continuous deterioration of the situation in east Ukraine, the meeting held by the US, Russia, EU and Ukraine in Geneva last week did not live up to earlier expectations that the conference would reduce tension between Moscow and Western capitals. Some 40,000 Russ

The National Council for Family Affairs (NCFA) recently held a special workshop on child abuse, focusing on corporal punishment, which seems to be still widespread in the country and accepted by most Jordanians as a proper method for disciplining children. Article 62 of the Pena

During his meeting with the 19-member National Action Front of the Lower House, His Majesty King Abdullah stressed the fact that the Jordanian citizen is at the heart of the Kingdom’s comprehensive reform process, which requires the engagement of all. The involvement of pa

Jordan’s Ambassador to Libya Fawaz Aitan spent his second day in captivity on Wednesday.

In a TV interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on April 13, the Israeli mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, said that East Jerusalem will never be the capital of the projected Palestinian state. Barkat was unequivocal about Israel’s intention to keep Jerusalem united, sayin

High government officials and top climate scientists assembled in Berlin last week to adopt a 24-page UN report calling for drastic action to curb climate change. The UN report says that the international community is running out of time to cut down on the use of highly pollutin

The Swiss government has recently confirmed that the Palestinian Authority, just as it had pledged, applied for accession to the four Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols. Bern has duly recorded the status of the PA as a state party to these Geneva agreements, a ste

US Secretary of State John Kerry last week came close to blurting out which side is responsible for the impasse in the peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis when he told the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fa

The Ministry of Education wants to “grade” private schools on the basis of school environment, resources, teaching staff and performance level. There is hardly a precedent in the world where governments undertake to classify schools, or even universities, on any basi