Gender session

1. Empowering young Palestinian women against multiple exclusion. ETF PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION CONFERENCE, BRUSSELS, 2-3 DECEMBER 2010 May Amireh VTC Supervisor YWCA of Jerusalem May-jerywca@alqudsnet.com

4. “I was not allowed to cross checkpoints and see my kids. They were told I was dead, when they saw me they looked as if they saw a ghost.”

5. “I always arrive late to college because of checkpoints. Is there a hidden plan to make us illiterate jobless and poor?”

7. Destruction of the family network.

8. Obstacle in the face of legal rights.

9. They face difficulty in the accessibility to educational, health, work institutes

10. They face spatial exclusion: the space they are allowed to move in is militarized.

11. The effect of exclusion on women's bodies, lives, time, state of mind.

13. Employment combats exclusion and prevents further feminization of poverty.

14. Economic independence promotes gender sensitive life and mode of thinking.

15. Education and employment offer women opportunities to take part in the public sphere in order to reach the status where women will take part in decision making.