Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling

The Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC) is described on its official website as an independent, non-profit Palestinian civil organization founded in 1991 to work on changing the reality of discrimination against women. A tender announcement on the same site states that it was founded in Jerusalem in 1991 as a Palestinian feminist civil institution seeking to protect and promote women's rights, based on international human rights standards and covenants, through monitoring, documentation and advocacy programmes locally and internationally, provision of legal and social services to battered women and victims of human rights violations, awareness and training programmes, development of equality-based policies and legislation, and capacity-building of grassroots institutions and volunteer groups.

According to its official website, the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling is an independent, non-profit Palestinian civil organization founded in 1991 to work on changing the reality of discrimination against women. A tender announcement published on the same site states that it was founded in Jerusalem in 1991 as a Palestinian feminist civil institution seeking to protect and promote women's rights based on international human rights standards and covenants, through monitoring, documentation and advocacy programmes at the local and international levels, provision of legal and social services to battered women and victims of human rights violations, awareness and training programmes, development of equality-based policies and legislation, and capacity-building of grassroots institutions and volunteer groups within an effective institution working in an integrated manner across its programme and administrative units and branch offices.

Independent, non-profit Palestinian civil/feminist institution working against discrimination against women.

1. 1مركز المرأة للارشاد القانوني والاجتماعيwclac.org
2. 2اعلان عطاء تقديم خدمات قانونية | رقم PR#26-013 - مركز المرأة للارشاد القانوني والاجتماعيwclac.org
3. 3Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselingwikidata.org