Open-Panel on the Right to Property and Women’s Economic Empowerment

The PWWSD organized an open-panel on women’s right to property, and its role in empowering women economically, among the activities for the Inheritance Denied project, implemented by the DCA, YMCA, PWWSD, and WSC. Lawyer Fadwa Dweib moderated the session, which featured Cheikh Youssef Id’ies the head of the Judiciary court, Suhair Abu Taka, the consultant for the minister of social affairs and Mrs. Amal Khreishe, the general director of the PWWSD. Cheikh Idi’es talked about women’s right to property in Islam, and the need to hold back the outdated traditions that deprive women from their rights. He also talked about the need to register the inheritance in the formal courts in order to distribute it fairly.

Amal Khreishe talked about the current conditions of Palestinian women, and the violence they experience. She stressed that depriving women from their right to inheritance or property is a violation of the international human rights conventions. She expressed her hope that the Inheritance Denied project will assist women to retrieve their right to property, and therefore be economically and socially empowered.  

Khreishe added that the Palestinian woman faces different forms of violations and violence. She faces her society which denies her basic rights, and prohibits her from participating in the public life in an equal manner with men despite her competencies and academic proficiency. She also faces the Israeli Occupation that tries to vanquish her by all means.