The Center for Women’s Legal Researches, Counselling and Protection (CWLRCP) is implementing the “Noon and its Sisters… Stop the Violence” project, which aims to reduce violence against women and girls, contribute to raising societal awareness against the phenomenon of violence, and provide legal and social protection for them, with funding from the German Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Project coordinator Professor Wafa Helles indicated that the Center seeks, through the project, to exert pressure on decision-makers to provide legal protection for girls and women from violence, and to raise awareness among young men and women as they are the generation that will carry out the process of development and community building, in addition to encouraging women to declare their position against violence directed against them.

She pointed out that the idea of the project came as a result of the expansion of the phenomenon of violence against women in Palestinian society, which has become a serious threat to society as a whole, as violence rates have exceeded all expectations, starting with the most severe forms: deprivation of the right to life by murder, in addition to forms of injury and physical harm suffered by large numbers of women, and ending with exploitation, threats, and undermining of women’s dignity, which most women are exposed to and falls under what is called domestic violence.

She explained that a number of activities have been implemented within the project, such as training targeting a group of lawyers to carry out legal and community awareness campaigns against the culture of non-violence, in addition to a community meeting that targeted a number of representatives of civil society organizations, especially women’s organizations, to motivate them and deepen their participatory efforts towards reducing violence against women and agreeing on a legal document to protect them from violence directed against them through the implementation of field workshops.