Enhancing Law Students’ Capacities to Deal with Gender Issues
Gaza: Saturday, 26 November 2011 – In cooperation with the Training Accounting & Management Institute (TAMI) and Faculties of Law at the Palestine and Al Azhar Universities in the Gaza Strip, the Birzeit University-based Institute of Law (IoL) launched a training course on Enhancing Law Students’ Capacities to Deal with Gender Issues.
As part of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women in the occupied Palestinian territory, six UN Agencies, namely UNDP/PAPP, UN-Women, ILO, UNESCO, UNFPA and UNRWA, are implementing a Joint Programme funded by the Government of Spain on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, covering the period 2009-2012. The Program aims to achieve three major Outcomes:
1. Reducing gender based violence and all form of violence against women and the girl child;
2. Increasing the representation of women’s and women’s issues in decision making bodies;
3. Advancing equal opportunities for women’s economic participation, especially women survivors of gender based violence.
With reference to output 1.3 “Capacity to provide refuge, security, and access to justice strengthened” and output 2.2, “Organize training and workshops to raise awareness on gender in local authorities and related NGOs”, UNDP seeks to:
1. Develop specialised curricula and training material and conduct training for judges, lawyers and prosecutors on gender issues and the provision of assistance to victims of violence and gender based violence.
2. Provide gender awareness training to local government staff in 15 districts to develop their capacity on mainstreaming gender in district development planning and service provision.
The training event will bring together 35 law students at the Al Azhar and Palestine Universities. Held in the Laterna Restaurant Hall in Gaza city, the training course was launched by Lina at Tounisi, Coordinator of the IoL Gaza Office, Imad Abu Dayyeh, TAMI Director General, and Said Abu Ghazah, UNDP Project Manager.
The training course will last for five days, from 26 to 30 November 2011. Training will cover the concept of gender and how to deal with major laws from a gender perspective. Besides introducing the role of forensic medicine in coping with gender-based violence, practical case studies from the Penal Law, Personal Status Law and Penal Procedure Law will be analysed.
