The Center for Women’s Legal Researches, Counselling and Protection (CWLRCP) is implementing a project to promote women’s rights in the Gaza Strip, based on a human rights approach. The project is funded by the Secretariat of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.

Professor Wafa Helles, the project coordinator, emphasized that the project aims to contribute to the promotion of women’s rights and gender equality in the Gaza Strip, based on human rights law and international humanitarian law. She noted that the center seeks, through the implementation of the project, to provide legal, psychological, and social protection to abused women, and to increase community awareness regarding women’s human rights and gender equality, based on human rights law and international humanitarian law. She pointed out that a number of field activities will be implemented during the project period, through which they seek to achieve increased access to justice for women and the elimination of violence against women. These activities include training a number of lawyers, in addition to providing legal protection to (150) women, and providing psychological and social support to (300) women survivors of violence, with the aim of integrating them into society, and implementing (60) awareness workshops in the governorates of the Gaza Strip, with the aim of raising awareness of issues related to laws and women’s rights.