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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