Subject to below minimum wage jobs, no pay slips, and arbitrary layoffs in Israeli settlements, Palestinian women under occupation are learning more about their rights and are beginning to unionize.
A new trade union established in Gaza
“It was necessary to establish a union for female hairdressers and beauty salons workers, as they are exposed to numerous violations of their rights and suffer from bad working conditions."
A woman’s place is in her union
Women in Palestine, as anywhere across the globe, are subjected to, and daily resisting, an intricate, mutually reinforcing web of state, social, economic and domestic violence and oppression, continuously violating their rights. The burden of Israeli occupation weighs therefore on many more layers on the daily lives of Palestinian woman than their male counterparts.
Palestinian women workers abused in West Bank colonies
The workers are forced into servitude as maids in Israeli colonies.
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