House endorses bill on national panel for int’l humanitarian law

AMMAN — The Lower House on Tuesday passed the 2002 law governing the National Committee for the International humanitarian law (IHL).

Under the law, a financially- and administratively-independent national committee will be established tasked with assisting and guiding the government in enforcing the IHL.

As put in its validating reasons, the law was written to complete the requirements of Jordan’s subscription to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention and its Additional Protocols, the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, the 1997 Mine-Ban Convention, also known as the “Ottawa Treaty”, and the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.