PWWSD organizes Workshop on Women’s Right to Inheritance in UN Women’s College

The Palestinian Working Women’s Society for Development organized a workshop on Monday 21^st 2012 on women’s right to inheritance in the UN Women’s College in Al-Tireh. Tens of students attended the workshop, which was implemented under the Inheritance Denied Project. Project Inheritance Denied is being implemented in coordination with the DCA, the YMCA and WAC in Gaza and is funded by the EU.  

Civic educator Naela Oudeh and lawyer Fadwa Thweib talked about women’s right to inheritance and the feminist and legal aspects of this right. They also emphasized the importance of inheritance to empower women economically and promote their independence and social and economic statuses. Oudeh stressed the need to give women their shares of inheritance. She talked about PWWSD’s efforts to alter the stereotypical and negative image of women and their rights. Oudeh pointed out the statistics published in relation to the issue of inheritance, which indicate that women are the poorest segment in society. Naela clarified that depriving women of their rights or forcing them to concede cause many social problems and affects civil peace.