Gender Based Violence in Light of the Absence of the Family Protection Law.

This paper comes as part of continuous efforts exerted by the Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development (PWWSD) to exact policies and legislations to form a legal and societal environment against Gender Based Violence in general, and domestic violence in particular. This paper focuses on the importance of developing a family protection legal framework consistent with the ‘Palestinian social contract’ based on equality, as stipulated in the Palestinian Declaration of Independence and in the Palestinian Basic Law. In accordance with international standards for human rights in general and women’s rights in particular. indivisible and inalienable in the international human rights system, especially those contained in the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Universal Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women and United Nations Security Council resolutions related to women’s right to protection against all forms of violence.