The program aims to educate women about their civil rights and duties and empower them to develop their social and economic status through the establishment of various projects and campaigns that serve them.
Waracati for Legal Empowerment of Women
It is one of the most important legal awareness projects in the State of Kuwait. It aims to legally empower women and girls in the State of Kuwait by raising their legal awareness and introducing them to all their rights stipulated in the Constitution and legislation of the State of Kuwait and in accordance with its international commitments through a free website that provides information and legal studies in both Arabic and English, on the following topics:
1- Women’s rights in the family and marriage.
2- Women’s rights to citizenship, nationality and political participation
3- Protecting women from violence
4- Promoting women’s economic rights (economic empowerment)
Violence Against women
Since Kuwait has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) since 1994, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women emanating from this Convention at the United Nations recommended the adoption of the shelter mechanism. Which has been activated in a number of Arab and Gulf countries such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and others.
The Women’s Social Cultural Association has initiated the preparation of a specialized legal human rights study on the philosophy of listening centers and shelters to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, and a draft special law on the mechanism for receiving these shelter centers for women and children victims of violence, to fill this legislative and social vacuum, and to provide a mechanism Effective to protect battered women, support their independence, and enhance their own capacities to reintegrate them into society. Work on the project began in January 2016 and ended in June 2017, with the support and funding of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, based on the Foundation’s mission to support and motivate everything that contributes to developing and strengthening the cultural environment of the community.
On October 17, 2017, the study was announced in a symposium held at the association’s headquarters entitled “The Philosophy of Listening Centers and Shelters in the State of Kuwait,” which was prepared by a team of legal researchers on the possibility of establishing listening centers and shelters in the State of Kuwait.
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Equity of Kuwaiti Women Married to a Non-Kuwaiti
The campaign for fairness of citizenship for women married to non-Kuwaitis was launched in 2014 to unify the efforts of civil society to provide fairness to this group of female citizens and to empower them with their basic rights stipulated in the Constitution of the State of Kuwait. The campaign aims to research and study the conditions of citizenship and her family who do not hold Kuwaiti citizenship, as justice for her has become an issue that cannot be delayed in order for her to enjoy psychological stability and social balance and to live with dignity in her homeland. The campaign includes 10 Kuwaiti NGOs, including Women’s Cultural & social society, and two volunteer groups.