PWWSD concludes Training in Women’s Issues and Advocacy

Ramallah – Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development finished a training course on women’s issues and advocacy for newly graduated lawyers, in which 18 young women from across the West Bank participated in a training that last 4 days - equivalent to 24 training hours. The training was funded by the UNDP, and implemented through the Women’s Right to Justice Project at PWWSD.  

Supervised by Issa Shatleh, the course aimed to train young lawyers to be able to work on the main project in the West Bank, in 27 work locations; ultimately to empower Palestinian women in the remote areas through increasing their chances to reach legal and court resources. In addition, the project aims to pressure the duty bearers to fulfill their legal and moral obligations towards women’s issues.

The general director of PWWSD Mrs. Amal Khreishe commented that this project is an outcome of an extensive accumulative process the organization has worked on, in the field of lobbying and advocacy on women’s issues. She added that grand efforts are put in order to achieve a solid implementation of the law, and separate the three authorities, to build a democratic Palestinian State, based on the sovereignty of law, equality and social justice. Khreishe advised to implement this training in this crucial period, while there is a need for international mobilization and lobbying to support the establishment of a Palestinian State on the lands of 1967, since the PNA is addressing the UN’s General Assembly in September, to request a full membership for a Palestinian Independent State and Jerusalem as its capital.