The Center for Women’s Legal Researches, Counselling and Protection (CWLRCP) concluded today a training course on “Documenting Women’s Stories Skills” within the framework of the “Let Me Speak” project. The project aims to form a trained group of female journalists and university graduates capable of feminist documentation and sensitivity to discrimination against women from the perspective of the Palestinian Women’s Rights Document.

The training course, which was part of the “Let Me Speak” project funded by UNESCO in cooperation with the Palestinian Women’s Research and Documentation Center, was attended by 20 female journalists.

The training course includes topics on violence against women, human rights, the International Conference on Population and Development and its importance for women, the Women’s Rights Document, and the history of the feminist movement.

Through the documentation of 20 stories, researchers will address economic and social rights, political rights, and criminal rights as stipulated in the Palestinian Women’s Rights Document, in order to monitor discrimination against women from the perspective of the document.

The rights document is considered a reference for developing feminist discourse for Palestinian women and as a tool for advocacy and struggle to unify women’s efforts and to root women’s rights in Palestinian laws and legislation. Through the document, women are demanding that the political leadership of the Palestinian people, through its legislative and executive authorities, take all measures to consolidate, protect, and adopt the rights contained in this document, which in part constitute rights that have been achieved and stipulated as acquired rights for Palestinian women that cannot be revoked or dropped when re-drafting any Palestinian laws or legislation, which guarantees human and civilizational advancement.