The Center for Women’s Legal Researches, Counselling and Protection (CWLRCP) is conducting workshops for law students on “Women’s Family Rights” as part of the project “Promoting Legal Protection for Marginalized Women in the Gaza Strip,” in cooperation with the NATHAM project funded by USAID.

Ms. Zeinab Al-Ghunaimi, Director of the Center, explained that the project aims to train 12 lawyers in personal status law, covering topics such as marriage, divorce, alimony, child custody, inheritance, as well as gender and gendered readings in personal status law. They also received Training of Trainers (TOT) instruction.

In the same context, Al-Ghunaimi said that the Center will conduct five workshops targeting 150 students from the Faculty of Law in universities to educate them about “Personal Status Law and Women’s Family Rights.” Subsequently, they will accompany the lawyers who were trained during the project to educate 2,000 women and men about personal status law and women’s family rights through field workshops implemented by the Center in cooperation with civil and women’s organizations in the Gaza Strip.

She also clarified that the project aims to contribute to providing legal protection for marginalized women in the Gaza Strip through legal awareness for women, in addition to improving the capabilities of lawyers in applying family law, spreading legal culture in society, and increasing societal sensitivity towards women’s rights, especially through family law.