A workshop under the title of “Violence against Women” was carried-out by MUSAWA, in cooperation with the PHRDs Network and Al-Waleed Charity. The workshop was held in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, targeting 21 female participants. The workshop aimed at spreading the culture of human rights in marginalized regions and communities, introducing the community to the existence and importance of the Palestinian Human Rights Defenders Network (PHRDs), disseminating its goals and mission in order to include new individuals and institutions as members, raising legal awareness, and...

After repeating the general elections in Gaza and North Gaza in adherence to the principle of equal representation, maintaining the representation of women in elections and to enhance participation and democracy in the work, which in turn activates the role of the Network and contributes to the fulfilment of its goals, and empowering their role in participation, leadership and decision-making, MUSAWA, in cooperation with the PHRDs Network, conducted the first meeting for the Network’s coordinators in Gaza and North Gaza, in the presence of the female candidates who were unsuccessful in the repeated elections as well as those who we...

Five meetings in five different areas (Ramallah, Jerusalem, and Jericho; Salfeet and Nablus; Tulqarm and Qalqilya; Jenin and Tubas; Bethlehem and Hebron) were carried-out by MUSAWA in cooperation with the PHRDs Network for the Network’s members. The meetings were held during June 2016, targeting 45 male and female members, in order to reach an agreement in terms of the mechanism by which members will do the Network’s activities in the upcoming period, to forge its internal system, and to contribute to the expansion of the Coalition for Palestinian Human Rights Defenders Declaration.