The Resource Room:

IRC has a library that contains books, references and video films on IRC activities reflecting the cooperation and technical coordination with other various national and international organizations.

The total number of the references available at the resource room, excluding the videos and periodicals; is 2482 Arabic references and 500 English references. Those references are of various subject matters such as Statistics, Social Studies and Human Rights in relation to children, youth and elderly.

References on CHILDREN issues consist of topics such as CRC conventions, child labor, child abuse, the state of world's children, disabled children and children in difficult circumstances.

As for the references on WOMEN, they contain information on gender, abuse, education, employment, state of the women in Jordan and the world, women empowerment and development.

Other references on FAMILY concentrating on major issues such as health, violence, statistics, development, laws and legislations are also available.

STATISTICS on issues such as population, labor, workers, health and education received from Department of Statistics (DOS) are also available at the resource room.

Arabic and English PERIODICALS are regularly received from national and regional organizations as follows:

English Periodicals:
• Action for Girls;
• Women Envision;
• Al-Sahil;
• Euro-Jordanian Newsletter;
• Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC);
• Global March against Child Labor;
• ECPAT Newsletter;
• Institute of Child Care Research Bulletin;
• Education Today.

Arabic Periodicals:
• Arab Thought Forum;
• Al-Nashra;
• ILO Publications;
• Journal on Arab Children (JAC);
• Childhood and Development;
• Dirasat
• Abhath Al.-YRMOUK;
• Mu'ta for Research and Studies
• Population Studies in Jordan;
• Jordan Events and Documentation;
• Al- Arabi;
• Afkar.

IRC resource room encompasses a Press Database which contains articles published in the official newspapers in the period between 2000-2003, compatible with the IRC objectives and related to the efforts made by various NGOs and GOs to improve the Jordanians social environment.

All materials available at the IRC resource room are classified into digitized index according to the fields: Author, Title, Subjects, Year, or Organizations which facilitate and ease the search process.

Beneficiaries:

The resource room can be considered as a reference to researchers, students of Social Development who can visit the resource room and get the information and statistics required to their research studies.
 

References available at IRC Resource Room