Phenix Center for Economic & Informatics Studies Phenix Center for Economic & Informatics Studies
The Phenix Center for Economic and Information Studies held a dialogue session to discuss the status of rights and freedoms, good governance, and economic development in the draft Charter for Social Dialogue in Southern Mediterranean Countries.
The session discussed the human rights situation in light of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, the extent of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the status of trade union and political freedoms and civil space freedom.
The session addressed effective strategies and tools to expand the space for freedom and democracy and to consolidate and institutionalize a real and equal social dialogue, in addition to discussing the distribution of roles between the public and private sectors.
The session also discussed the status of social protection and social justice, as well as the most prominent issues that must be focused on in the context of realizing economic and social rights and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The session reviewed the spaces available to pressurize the elites (political and economic) to negotiate a new social deal, one aspect of which is serious and rights-based reform.
The session outlined priorities and interventions that help to adopt a multi-pronged approach that covers all stages of life, ensures the transition of the social protection system to a rights-based system, and promotes programs that are easy to join, acceptable, and adaptable.
It also addressed the status of social protection, discrimination against women, economic empowerment, and social justice, as well as the relationship between the public and private sectors in Jordan.
