Union of Palestinian Women Committees
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Union of Palestinian Women Committees

The Union of Palestinian Women Committees Society was founded in the year 1980 under the name (Union of Palestinian Women Committees) purposing to empower Palestinian women on all levels and to contribute in the Palestinian national struggle against the Israeli military illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories. In the year 2001, the Union was licensed by the Palestinian interior ministry under the name (Society of Palestinian Women Committees) with the registration number RA: 297 C. the Union is a progressive women mass- based organization and an indivisible part of the Palestinian women movement in particular and the national movement in particular.

Vision

UPWC strives to build a civil democratic progressive community free of all forms of discrimination and respects women rights as part of human rights in general.

Mission

UPWC struggles to empower Palestinian women and develop their circumstances to achieve real equity between men and women as well as equity among all social classes. Moreover, the Union fights to ensure positive affirmation of women within all the laws active in Palestine.

The Union, on the other hand, considers itself part of the Palestinian national movement that struggles against the Israeli illegal occupation to achieve the national independence. UPWC, considering itself part of the universal progressive movement, works alongside with the international progressive movement against the militarization of globalization as well as against any form of discrimination imposed on any social sector (especially women) wherever it takes place.

Strategic Objectives:

• Contributing in the national struggle to establish an independent Palestinian State;
• Contributing in empowering women on all levels (social, political, economical, and cultural levels);
• Motivate women base to participate in the decision making process;
• Activate coordination with Palestinian women movement to form a unified Palestinian women movement;
• Lobbying on the decision makers and legislators to issue a modern civil laws set to ensure developing the Palestinian community;
• Defending the rights of Palestinian refugee and imprisoned women; and
• Develop the administrative and financial structure of the Union as well as developing the institutional performance.