The Center for Women’s Legal Researches, Counselling and Protection (CWLRCP) concluded a training course targeting newly graduated lawyers as part of the project “Protecting the Legal Rights of Abused Women in the Gaza Strip.” This project is funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation – Palestine and Jordan Office, and aims to contribute to reducing violence against women and girls by raising societal awareness against violence and providing them with legal and social protection.

At the end of the training course, Ms. Zeinab Al-Ghunaimi, Director of the Center, thanked the lawyers for their commitment and interaction and honored them by distributing certificates. Regarding the details of the training course, the project coordinator, Ms. Samah Al-Qishawi, indicated that the training was conducted over eight days, totaling 40 hours, on the following topics: gender, violence against women from a gender perspective, personal status law (marriage, divorce, inheritance), women’s rights in international covenants and agreements, women’s political participation and its relationship to international decisions and agreements, and training of trainers (TOT). She clarified that the total number of trainees was 20, including 13 female lawyers and 7 male lawyers.

She explained that the goal of the training was achieved by providing the lawyers with additional information to assist them in their work in implementing workshops in the five different governorates of the Gaza Strip, which are planned to be carried out during the current month. This was determined through a pre- and post-assessment questionnaire that was distributed to them, revealing a difference in their answers to the questions included in the questionnaire on the same topics.

For their part, the lawyers emphasized the importance of the topics that were presented during the training, noting that this was the first time they had received training on these issues.