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Location

Nablus, Palestinian Territories, / Middle East

Project Details

Project Hope will facilitate educational courses for adult women residing in Nablus on the issue of women's rights at an international level. The course will focus on the International Declaration of Human Rights and how it applies to women's rights in the Palestinian culture. This project will be conducted in cooperation with local women's centers. Courses will be facilitated by international and local volunteers with human rights and women's rights training or experience. The groups will be limited to 15 students, but will be run in a number of different centers around the Nablus district, including refugee camps and villages.

The multiple checkpoints and closures that isolate the city of Nablus from the outside world, even from other Palestinian cities, makes the population isolated from other cultures and ways of living. This means, in terms of women's rights, that the women do not have a complete concept of how women in other counties live and exercise their rights. The women's rights issues in Palestine differ greatly from those in other countries and knowledge of others’ plight that might be similar to one's own is invaluable. This project is designed to fill this knowledge deficit by facilitating educational courses in international women's rights and women's rights issues abroad. The workshops will not attempt to solve women's rights issues in Palestine, but they will combine a discussion of women's rights abroad and how they apply or contrast to women's situation in Palestine.