November 25, 2010
The Women’s Unit Conducts a Series of Activities Including Lectures in Cooperation with the 16-day Campaign “International Activity for the Elimination of Violence against Women”
The Women’s Unit Conducts a Series of Activities Including Lectures in Cooperation with the 16-day Campaign “International Activity for the Elimination of Violence against Women”

 Ref: 86/2010 

The Women’s Unit of the Palestinian Center
for Human Rights (PCHR) has coordinated a series of activities in cooperation
with the 16-day campaign of the “International Activity to Eliminate
Violence Against Women,” which starts on 25 November 2010, the International
Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, until 10 December 2010, the Anniversary
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in order to emphasize the
correlation between violence against women and the denial of human rights.

 

These activities include a series of
lectures raising awareness on the issue of violence against women. The lectures will target an audience of women
from all areas of the Gaza Strip and the Women’s Unit of PCHR will be working
in collaboration with a number of community and women’s organizations in the
Gaza Strip.

 

The first lecture on the itinerary
will be held on 28 November 2010 at the Ghassan Kanafani’s Society in Beit
Hanoun, a town in the northern region of the Gaza Strip.

 

According to Mona al-Shawwa,
Director of PCHR’s Women’s Unit, the lectures will address violence against
women, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and
raising awareness on the legal protection mechanisms available to victims of
violence.

 

The Women’s Unit has arranged to
hold eleven lectures for this campaign in different areas of the Gaza Strip,
including Gaza, Beit Hanoun, and Deir al-Balah.

 

Furthermore, the Women’s Unit will
participate with other locally active and socially relevant organizations to
hold additional activities to be included in the campaign, to more thoroughly
provide support to women and defend their rights.