{"id":52048,"date":"2019-11-26T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T01:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52048"},"modified":"2019-11-26T12:24:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T04:24:13","slug":"kuwait-holds-workshop-on-elimination-of-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52048","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Holds Workshop On Elimination Of Violence Against Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUWAIT, Nov 26 (NNN-KUNA) &#8211; Kuwait Human Rights Society (KHRS), organised a workshop on Monday, to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop, themed &#8220;Towards a National Vision to Eliminate Violence Against Women,&#8221; was held in Hawalli Province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the workshop, KHRS presented a draft law on combating violence against women, in the presence of human rights activists, diplomats and representatives of government bodies concerned with women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atyab Al-Shatti, KHRS&#8217; attorney, said, the draft law took into account the principles enshrined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The draft law recommends the abolition of all discriminatory laws against women, and the establishment of shelters for abused women, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop saw an initiative to promote gender equality and a project to combat violence and harassment against women in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2019 theme for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is &#8220;Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands Against Rape.&#8221;&#8211; NNN-KUNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUWAIT, Nov 26 (NNN-KUNA) &#8211; Kuwait Human Rights Society (KHRS), organised a workshop on Monday, to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The workshop, themed &#8220;Towards a National Vision to Eliminate Violence Against Women,&#8221; was held in Hawalli Province. At the workshop, KHRS presented a draft law on combating violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,198,217,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52048"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}