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Factors curbing Gazan women’s awareness of their rights
26-10-2017
Al Hayat newspaper published an article on the development of community awareness of women’s rights in the Gaza Strip as viewed by a number of experts. On the subject, the Palestinian researcher, Hassan Salameh, from the Palestinian Planning Center, said the maturity of community awareness of the rights of the Gazan women is not as anticipated compared with the efforts exerted to this effect. The reason for this, he explained, is that Gazan women still lack the courage to stand up for their rights, in addition to the prevailing male culture that largely determines their lives and fates. For her part, Hedaya Chamoun, specialist in women’s affairs, referred to what she called the “cultural apostasy”, and the baggage of religious intolerance associated with it and which tends to distract Gazans from their fight against poverty, unemployment, violence and against the fragmentation of the Palestinian identity. Chamoun, while stressing the hindering effect of such attitude in the struggle of women, and the adoption by mothers of the male prejudice in upbringing their own children, she expressed hope of a new generation of women who are fully aware of their rights. This was supported as well by the advisor for women’s rights, Hanin Sammak. On the same subject, researcher Talal Abu Rakbeh, from Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies, considered that women are not the only ones to blame, and it is unfair to lay the burden of change on them alone for they are only part of the dilemma. Other causes are rooted in the environment, culture, education and upbringing. (Al Hayat, October 26, 2017)
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