Project: We have the right to a law that protects us

Project objective: To raise the awareness of women, youth and clerics in 5 rural areas of the negative impact of violence against women on society.

All areas of implementation: the West Bank

Target group: Women, male and female students from schools, clerics, preachers, and members of local councils

Project Duration: 8/2019 – 7/2020

The most important achievements for the year 2020

• Coordination and implementation of nearly fifty workshops in ten marginalized rural villages in the West Bank in Palestine,

• Holding workshops in the schools that have been selected in coordination with the Ministry of Education and the administrations of those schools. The topics raised in the workshops focused on gender-based violence, violence against women, the killing of women, and its effects on women and society as a whole.

• Holding 3 meetings with Christian and Islamic clerics and female preachers to make them our allies and partners to contribute to educating people, reducing violence against women, and convincing society of the need to reject violence against women.

• Supporting nearly 50 battered women who head their families and have a poor economic situation by providing them with food parcels.

• Conducting consultations and counseling sessions for about 100 women who suffer from many societal pressures in the Bethlehem and Hebron regions.





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