r6nks of the civil service and private business; recent data on the proportion of women receiving primary, secondary and higher education: and information on h0w the right6 of aliens were restricted as compared with those of citizens. 550. Members of the Committee also pointed out that sex was not included as one of the possible grounds Eor discrimination listed in article 6 (a) of the Jordanian Constitution, although it wa6 referred to in article 3 oE the Covenant, and they requested clarifications in that regard. They asked about the nature of the dangerous activities women were prohibited from engaging in Under article 46 of the Jordanian Labour Act: whether men and womenwere equal in respect of the division of community property and the Custody of children; sud whether boy6 and girl6 had the same right6 in relation to succession. 531. The representative of the State party said that article 6 (a) of the Constitution prohibited any discrimination between Jordanians, who were equal before the law in respect of rights and duties, and that the same term6 were used in the 1960 Penal Code. The Jordanian Government did not have any difficulty in ensuring equality between men and women. He stated that equality between Jordanian citisens wa6 guaranteed and that women had always taken part and continued to take part in economic, social and cultural life, There were women in the upper house of Parliament, and they played a particularly important role in education. There were nearly as many women a6 mRnin civil service posts and in the private sector. In school6 and universities, there were equal numbers of Student6 of both sexes. 502. With regard to nationality, he explained that Jordan applied $rs sang&&& and that all children of Jordanian citizens were Jordanian, wherever they might have been born. The child of a Jordanian woman and a father of unknown nationality was also Jordanian. The representative indicated that the only constraint6 on the rights of alien6 were political in nature and they related to the right to enter and leave the territory, which was applied according to the principle of reciprocity. 503. Article 46 of Labour Act NO, 21 was in the interest of women. Matters of civil status relating to such matters as succession and inheritance, marriage and divorce were subject to the jurisdiction of religious tribunal6 in accordance with tire belief of the individual. 504. With reference to that ifisue, member6 of the Committee asked whether any further executions had been carried out since the submission of the report: how the right of person6 sentenced to death to seek pardon or cornmutation of the sentence, pursuant to article 6, paragraph 4, of the Covenant, wa6 ensured: in what way a person sentenced by a military court 00uld become eligible for a special pardon; and what rule6 and regulation6 90verrred the Use of firearm6 by the police and what measures had been taken to Prevent the recurrence of violation6 of these rules and regulations, if any. 7key also wished to know how the provision in article 17, paragraph 2, of the Penal Code, stipulating that the death penalty would he commuted to hard labour for life in the case of pregnant women, was carried out in practice. 585. Additionally, members wished to know whether any death sentence had been Passedby the martial law court6 during the period 1990-1991 and wished to -143-