The rights of persons with disabilities to hold public office in accordance with the Jordanian legislation

Abstract

Conventions and human rights principles affirm the right of persons with disabilities to hold a public office, and to equal them with others in this right to enable them to live easily and conveniently, and in a manner commensurate with the requirements of the job and the nature of the disability.

Jordan, like other countries, pays particular attention to persons with ‎disabilities, ‎especially in their right to take up a public job by creating laws and ‎regulations ‎that guarantee this right in parallel with the requirements of a public ‎job, and the ‎requirement of physical fitness in recruitment to it.‎

The study concluded with a number of results, most notably that there are some shortcomings in Jordanian legislation governing the access to public office by persons with disabilities, and that they are free from sanctions and penalties against those who fail to apply them on the part of the administration, and the study recommended the need to pay attention to this category and update the medical standards that are dealt with it regarding appointing them to the public office and granting them their basic rights to a decent life, on an equality with others, in a manner that does not affect the public job and its objectives.