The Civil Education Board in PalThink Is Conducting an Awareness-Raising Meeting on Gender-Based Violence

As part of a civic education project, the Civil Education Board in Pal-Think for Strategic Studies carried out an awareness-raising workshop entitled “Gender-based violence (reality and solutions)” on Thursday,18th February 2021, at the Fares Arab Foundation, in the presence of a number of Palestinian university students in the Gaza Strip.

It is worth noting that this workshop comes as part of the project “Preparing a Civic Intellectual,” which is being implemented by Pal-Think for Strategic Studies with funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

The meeting was conducted by Ms Soha Sokar, a trainee in a civic education project, who spoke about the concept of gender, forms of gender-based violence in the Palestinian situation, mechanisms for dealing with cases of gender-based violence, and reviewed legal texts dealing with issues of gender-based violence.

A series of questions, interventions were discussed in the meeting by both the audience and the facilitator.