Women

During the last decades, Palestinian women have been confronted with various challenges, Two Intifada, the Israeli occupation, the apartheid wall and the restrictions of the freedom of movement transform the Palestinian woman to a victim of the political situation of her country.

More than ever since the beginning of the second Palestinian Uprising (Al-Aqsa Intifada) in 2000, and the population's gradual and ongoing turn toward more conservatism:

Within households and family sphere, women are playing a unique major supportive role; The women' responsibilities in the work place and within political groups have increased too, due to the death or the imprisonment of the male members within the family, and massive unemployment.

Pressure, frustration, despair and fear have accompanied the Palestinian people ever since and this situation has been an important factor that contributed to an increase in domestic violence, and has also contributed to increasing gender disparities in education, economic activity and political participation, threatening the situation of Palestinian women.

The Palestinian society is affected with gender-based and women stereotypes.

TAM projects were developed in response to scarce opportunities provided for Palestinian women to express themselves, and with the objective to raise the women' awareness about internal social problems and Human Rights, to empower the women providing them with an innovative tool to do so, thus to  open news perspectives for them.

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