{"id":916,"date":"2017-10-27T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2017-10-27T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:56:26","slug":"sexist-jordan-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/10\/27\/sexist-jordan-law\/","title":{"rendered":"sexist jordan law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/jordan-change-sexist-nationality-law-171025061456316.html\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/jordan-change-sexist-nationality-law-171025061456316.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s controversial nationality law to be abolished is likely to be refused in parliament, activists say.<\/p>\n<p>The petition, which has so far received 3,800 signatures, will be presented to the Jordanian parliament once it gathers 5,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;it is not at all that simple,&#8221; says Aroub Soubh, a Jordanian activist.<\/p>\n<p>Soubh has been working with civil society groups and NGOs on a campaign tackling what she describes as Jordan&#8217;s &#8220;sexist&#8221; nationality law.<\/p>\n<p>A campaign entitled &#8220;My mother is Jordanian and her nationality is my right&#8221; &#8211; established by late women&#8217;s rights activist Nima Habashna &#8211; has branched out into a grassroots project by a coalition of local rights groups called &#8220;Citizenship is my family&#8217;s right&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/jordan-change-sexist-nationality-law-171025061456316.html Jordan&#8217;s controversial nationality law to be abolished is likely to be refused in parliament, activists say. The petition, which has so far received 3,800 signatures, will be presented to the Jordanian parliament once it gathers 5,000 signatures. But &#8220;it is not at all that simple,&#8221; says Aroub Soubh, a Jordanian activist. Soubh has been working with civil society groups&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/10\/27\/sexist-jordan-law\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}