PWWSD organizes Films Screening on Women’s Rights and Women’s Conditions in Israeli Prisons

The Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development organized screenings for the films: “We Want to Talk, Wes We Can, Herbal Butterflies, and Another Legacy” in the organization’s headquarters, the feminist center in Balata refugee camp, and the municipal center in Beit Fourik, where 130 women attended to watch the films.

After the films, participants discussed several issues, specifically the conditions of women in the Israeli prisons, and the violations that are committed against women and their rights including the political and social violence, and the psychological traumas resulting from the constant torture. The participants discussed the society’s view of women prisoners and the role of the all organizations in supporting and rehabilitating those women. They also talked about the forms of violence exercised against the Palestinian women prisoners by the Israeli authorities including the solitary confinement, the ban of family visits, and the psychological torture.

The participants accentuated at the end of every screening the importance of sharing the experiences and stories of women prisoners in the local media channels, in order to shed the light on their suffering, and to expose the Israeli violations. In addition, the participants also called upon the Palestinian government to dedicate special budgets for women in order to enhance their capacities and achieve their empowerment on the long-term.

On another level, the civic education program at the PWWSD in Tulkarem conducted many educational workshops in Kufur Zibad, Anabta, Nour Shams refugee camp, on the dangers of early marriage.

The civic educator Ashwak Omer talked in the workshops on early marriage, the dangers of early marriage on girls and women, saying it deprives girls the right to education, and the right to be protected from physical violence. It also deprives women from enjoying their adolescence. Ashwak also discussed the adverse social norms which encourage early marriage. In the end of the workshops participants received educational brochures on early marriage and its adverse social and physiological effects.