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GBV in Israel/Palestine: Notes From the Field
The coming weeks will include travel to an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev Desert, a meeting with Arab Israeli women’s rights activists in Haifa, travel to Jerusalem, and to the cities of Nablus and Tulkarem in West Bank. Much of this is made possible through the willingness of researchers, activists, and community members who have openly shared their information, resources, and contacts with COHI. Those that COHI has spoken with are very excited about this research and are eager to assist in any way that they can. These are the same individuals COHI hopes to establish partnerships with in the future, as the gender-based violence assessment takes shape and data is revealed.
Warm regards,
Stephanie Chaban
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Be'er Sheva, located in the northern Negev Desert, is the fourth largest city in Israel. A dry, seemingly inhospitable place, the city is a wealth of ethnic and religious diversity. It is here that COHI has begun to lay the foundation for a gender-based violence assessment of Israeli and Palestinian women. As COHI establishes its contacts, meetings that have already taken place, or will take place shortly, with researchers, community members, activist, and women’s rights advocates on the topic of violence in the lives of women. The various communities, which have already been contacted, include: Arab Israeli, Bedouin, Ethiopian, the Former Soviet Union, and Palestinian, in addition to Jewish Israeli. Contact has also been made with Israel’s most recent refugee populations: the Congolese and Sudanese diasporas.
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Circle of Health International is a 501c3 nonprofit organization supporting the empowerment of conflict- and disaster-affected women through the provision of women's health initiatives. Learn more and get involved at www.cohintl.org. |
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