Slavery in Jordan

Slavery in Jordan is illegal, however, like many other countries, it suffers from issues relating to human trafficking.

Historically, slavery in the territory later to become the modern state of Jordan, was significant during the Ottoman Empire period.

Among the reforms representing the process of official abolition of slavery in the Ottoman Empire where the Prohbition of the Circassian and Georgian slave trade (1854–1855), the Prohibition of the Black Slave Trade (1857), and the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1880,[2] followed by the Kanunname of 1889 and the excluding of slavery from the Constitution of 1908.

[6] While formally banned on paper, slavery was reported to still exist in practice in Jordan as late as the 1940s.

Jordan is a source, destination, and transit country for adults and children subjected to forced labor and, to a lesser extent, sex trafficking.