Through innovative programmes, UN Women has been supporting Palestinian women since 1997 to achieve their social, economic and political rights.
While significant progress in gender equality and women’s empowerment has been achieved, the volatile and fragile context of the occupied Palestinian territory has made progress fragile and prone to regression. Years of Occupation and political strife have affected the socioeconomic situation of the Palestinian population as a whole and in particular, increased women’s vulnerability to social and economic insecurity and to an integrated system of violence. In response to this complex context and the composite needs of Palestinian women and families, UN Women concentrates its efforts and interventions on the following goal areas:
- Increasing Palestinian women’s transformative leadership and participation in decision-making;
- Increased economic empowerment of Palestinian women, especially those who are most excluded (socially, economically, politically and geographically);
- Combatting violence against Palestinian women and girls and expanding their access to protection and other services;
- Increased Palestinian women’s leadership in peace, security and the engendering of humanitarian response.
- Stronger institutional accountability to gender equality commitments.