{"id":225323,"date":"2019-11-27T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=225323"},"modified":"2019-11-29T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:48:34","slug":"unrwa-kicks-off-16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence-with-tv-mini-series-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-kicks-off-16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence-with-tv-mini-series-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Kicks Off 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence With TV Mini Series – Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A student at the UNRWA Rimal Preparatory Girls\u2019 School \u201cA\u201d in Gaza shows off her artwork at a GBV awareness raising event.
\n\u00a9 2019 UNRWA photo by Ibrahim Abu Usheiba<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n

On the launch of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence (GBV), an international advocacy and awareness-raising campaign that runs from 25 November to 10 December, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is reiterating its call for gender equality and ending gender based violence under the theme\u00a0\u201c<\/span>Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV)\u201d. A series of events are being organized in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan to mark the Agency\u2019s commitment to respond, prevent and mitigate GBV within Palestine refugee communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite years of advocacy by the UN and others on women\u2019<\/span>s rights, so much of what is now universally recognized as GBV is still very difficult to discuss publicly, said the head of the gender section at UNRWA Ms. Sana Jelassi. In the last two years, UNRWA has stepped up its activities in support of women and girls, in large part to empower them in the face of violence they might be facing within their own communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the activities it is planning, UNRWA will screen\u00a0\u201c<\/span>The Shop of Engineer Lina<\/span><\/strong>\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/span>s Father<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u201d, a TV mini-series which was entirely shot and produced in Gaza over the last year to raise awareness about gender stereotypes that underpin GBV, child marriage and sexual abuse of boys. The six-episode mini-series uses characters that the Palestine refugee communities can relate to and addresses the complex subject of GBV\u00a0 by use at times of a comic approach to tackle the issues that might otherwise be too culturally sensitive to discuss even in closed circles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to gender equality, there is so much that we at UNRWA can be proud of,\u201d said UNRWA Acting Commissioner-General Mr. Christian Saunders. \u201cOur schools achieved gender parity in the 1960s and almost two-thirds of the UNRWA budget goes to programmes and services that contribute to achieving gender equality. However, there is so much still to be done and our priority must be to further empower women and to reduce gender gaps, to eliminate all forms of discrimination and prevent and respond to situations of violence and abuse against women and children.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year UNRWA provided assistance to nearly 5,000 women, girls, men and boys survivors of GBV. This assistance included psychosocial support, health care, legal counseling and other services despite the reduced funding to the Agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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UNRWA is confronted with an increased demand for services resulting from a growth in the number of registered Palestine refugees, the extent of their vulnerability and their deepening poverty. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions and financial support has been outpaced by the growth in needs. As a result, the UNRWA programme budget, which supports the delivery of core essential services, operates with a large shortfall. UNRWA encourages all Member States to work collectively to exert all possible efforts to fully fund the Agency\u2019s programme budget. UNRWA emergency programmes and key projects, also operating with large shortfalls, are funded through separate funding portals.<\/p>\n

UNRWA is a United Nations agency established by the General Assembly in 1949 and mandated to provide assistance and protection to some 5.4 million Palestine refugees registered with UNRWA across its five fields of operation. Its mission is to help Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip achieve their full human development potential, pending a just and lasting solution to their plight. UNRWA services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, protection and microfinance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A student at the UNRWA Rimal Preparatory Girls\u2019 School \u201cA\u201d in Gaza shows off her artwork at a GBV awareness raising event. \u00a9 2019 UNRWA photo by Ibrahim Abu Usheiba Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 On the launch of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence (GBV), an international advocacy and awareness-raising campaign that runs from […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2437,1329],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2097,6245,1841],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6544,6542],"class_list":["post-225323","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-arabic-text","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-social-issues","document-subject-violence","document-subject-women","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-arabic","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/225323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/225323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=225323"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=225323"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=225323"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=225323"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=225323"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=225323"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=225323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}