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Women's estrangement

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By Hanadi Al-Qadoumi. Asleep on my pillow, sad, how long I have wished for someone to share with me even the two moments of my painful sleep... moments that robbed me of my beautiful feelings. I admitted to myself that I am truly alone, living with it in a deadly solitude in the corners of a nook of my old house. Thus the days willed it and fate wrote for me solitude and then solitude... For a long time I have not felt a warmth that would make me forget my bitter estrangement or […]

The mukhtars and reconciliation figures in Gaza in a modern guise?

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Gaza / Ola Hasaballah. "They loved one another... they exchanged kisses as they exchanged roses and gifts... suddenly she is pregnant by him with no legitimate bond between them." This story was actually put forward in one of the training sessions held by the Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution for a group of mukhtars and men of reconciliation in Gaza, and the answer to it was not the traditional one of saying: "Kill them both and let no mercy or pity for them take hold of you", but was […]

A discussion circle entitled "Our schools: closed doors and exposed walls"

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Gaza / Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda / Islam Al-Astal. Participants recommended the need for continuous communication between parents and the school in order to control the process of school dropout, during the discussion session carried out by the media group "A woman's dream" affiliated to the Palestinian Center for Conflict Resolution, entitled "Our schools: closed doors and exposed walls". The participants stressed the need for the competent government bodies to supervise video game shops, as […]

The Palestinian Center, Hebron branch, holds many workshops for women

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Within the events of the project for supporting and empowering women funded by the office of Norwegian People's Aid, the Palestinian Center carried out many awareness and education meetings for women in the areas of Tarqumiya, Kharas, Surif and Dura, where the workshops were held at women's centres and gatherings. The first meeting discussed the violence practised against women, then the second meeting addressed the legal side of maintenance, divorce […]

The Palestinian Center concludes an advanced training course for the social support committees and reconciliation figures from the Gaza Strip governorates

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Gaza: today the Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution concluded an advanced training course under the title: the mechanisms and skills of intervention for the social support committees and men of reconciliation in the governorates of the Gaza Strip to limit violence against women. Around (25 mukhtars and men of reconciliation from all the governorates of the Gaza Strip) took part in the course. It is worth noting that the course continued for ten training days […]

The start of a course on skills for supporting and empowering women

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For the third year running, the Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution, Hebron branch, launches the activities of the project for supporting and empowering women, funded by the office of Norwegian People's Aid, in the hall of the Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution, where the course entitled "The skills of supporting and empowering women" was opened. It is considered the first of the project's activities, which will be carried out over a year. The course targets male and female university students […]

Gaza: a new agreement to support and empower women victims of violence

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Gaza - Maan: today the Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution signed a new agreement at the premises of the NPA office, the office of Norwegian People's Aid, in Gaza city, for the third year running, for the project (supporting and empowering women victims of violence). This was in the presence of Ashraf Abu Nada, chairman of the Centre's board, Abdel Moneim Al-Tahrawi, projects coordinator at the Centre, and Widad Nasr, women's projects officer at […]

Palestinian women journalists stress the weakness of media coverage of the reality of Palestinian women

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The Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution broadcast a radio episode over the airwaves of Voice of the People radio (FM 106) entitled (Palestinian women: a crushed reality and a false media), within the programme (Tales from life), and within the Centre's events to help women victims of violence, particularly after the last war on the Gaza Strip. The Centre hosted guests from among the women journalists who work at women's organisations […]

Media professionals and specialists recommend adopting a media vision to advocate Palestinian women's causes

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The Palestinian Center - Gaza. Palestinian journalists recommended the need for the media to adopt a clear media vision in order to convey the cause of Palestinian women to the international and also the Arab community, and to reveal the suffering they have endured and still endure as a result of the last Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which continued for 22 days and whose victims were around 1,350 martyrs and more than 5,000 wounded, half of them women. The journalists called on the organisations concerned with women […]

Thank you, Mr. President!! But?

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Thank you, Mr. President!! But? Can we consider President Mahmoud Abbas's speech a step in the right direction towards realising women's rights, despite its lateness? And can we expect rapid implementation by those concerned with regard to the President's decisions.. despite our apprehension? Can we expect a women's movement to press those concerned to achieve results on the ground […]