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“There is no free homeland without free women” reverberated across Palestinian communities last September when thousands of Palestinian women took to the streets in 12 villages, towns and cities across the world in what was the launch of Tal’at, a Palestinian feminist movement. Tal’at means (...)
The TALIAAT movement mobilized for the first time in Ramallah on September 26, 2019, bringing together more than one hundred women against violence committed against a woman by her husband. Other demonstrations were organized at the same time throughout all of historic Palestine, including (...)
On Thursday, thousands of Palestinians protested for women’s rights in twelve locations across Palestine/Israel and the diaspora following recent high profile cases of gender-based violence against women in Palestinian society.
Ramallah city center, Sep 26, 2019. Photo by Ahmad Al-Bazz / (...)
New coalitions of women are shaping the future of activism and gender equality in the Gaza Strip.
“I am here because I heard my town call me, and ask me to maintain my honor.” Fifty-seven-year-old Um Khalid Abu Mosa spoke in a strong, gravelly voice as she sat on the desert sand, a white tent (...)
Samah Salaime is the founder of Na’am/Arab Women in the Center. A social worker, she lives and works with her family in the Jewish-Arab community of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam and is a regular writer on Local Call, +972 Magazine and Ha’aretz. A Palestinian Israeli, hers is one of the most (...)
Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, was recently arrested in a night-time raid on her home. The Israeli authorities accuse her of “assaulting” an Israeli soldier and an officer. A day earlier she had confronted Israeli soldiers who had entered her family’s backyard. The incident happened (...)
Dear Ikea:
I read the [above] article referenced here , and it is with profound sadness that I read about your newest catalog that is aimed at the Haredi market. You have capitulated to the notion that erasing women from the public sphere is a positive move. While your motive is (obviously) (...)
“Support BDS, and Palestine will be free!” – Angela Davis
On the occasion of Palestinian women’s celebration of 8th of March, the International Women’s Day, we the undersigned, Palestinian women organizations, centers and groups, call upon all women and feminists of the world, as well as women’s (...)
As Israel’s assault on the besieged Palestinian population in Gaza approaches its third week, we continue to hear about the “disproportionate number” of women and children victims. This expression begs the question: what is a proportionate number of women and children killed in a genocide?
As (...)
Dr. Mordechai Kedar, an Israeli scholar of Arabic literature and lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, declared Monday that raping the wives and mothers of Palestinian combatants would deter attacks.
“The only thing that could deter a suicide bomber is knowing that if caught, his sister or his (...)
On a warm and bright Sunday morning, three-year-old Saqer was cuddling with his mother when she was shot several times in the head and chest. Dishevelled, tremulous, and smirched with his mother’s blood, Saqer was spotted by a neighbour pleading for help, but was unable to give utterance to what (...)
Hadarat nashim, translatable as “the exclusion of women,” is a Hebrew phrase with which few Israelis would have been familiar several months ago. Now there are even fewer, if any, who are unfamiliar with it. After first coming to the public’s attention late last summer over the issue of excusing (...)
When the passenger refused to move to the designated back seats, even when police arrived, the bus continued on its way, despite her refusal.
A woman passenger on a public bus from Ashdod to Jerusalem Friday was told by an ultra-Orthodox male passenger to move to the back of the bus. The man (...)
ISRAEL - POLICE ARREST WOMEN OF THE WALL LEADER FOR PRAYING AT JERUSALEM WESTERN WALL WITH TORAH SCROLL
Anat Hoffman, the Israeli women’s prayer group leader, was arrested for holding a Torah scroll in violation of a High Court ruling on prayer at the Western Wall.
Jerusalem Police on Monday (...)
RAMALLAH, Feb 15, 2010
Female journalists worldwide complain about discrimination on the grounds of gender. However, their colleagues in Gaza also face death threats, the dangers of working in a war zone and the struggle for daily necessities as the Israeli siege on Gaza drags on. Last year a (...)
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Press Releases
Ref: 93/2009
Date: 26 July 2009
Time: 09:00 GMT
Decision to Impose Traditional Robes and Veils on Female Lawyers in Gaza Is Illegal
Chief Justice of the High Court of Justice, Head of the Higher Justice Council in Gaza gas issued a new (...)
Dear sisters and friends
The women’s peace movement as well as the left in Israel is protesting the war each and everyday since it began. They do not get enough media coverage.
At the same time women’s organizations came together to protest war as a legitimate means of solving conflicts. I am (...)
The gruesome incident in which a husband inflicted near fatal wounds to his wife and killed his little baby, in small village near to Nablus, underlines the plight of women in Palestine. In another incident a few days ago, a woman in her twenties was found dead in the Gaza Strip, suspected to (...)
On March 18, 2004, Ha’yir Weekly, a major Tel-Aviv weekend paper (Ha’aretz Group), published an interview with a certain Tali Fahima - a young woman age 28 working as a secretary in a respectable law firm in Tel-Aviv - in which she stated strongly her positions against the Israeli assassination (...)
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