org). Crimes against women include abuse, slavery, false imprisonment, murder and rape. In Palestine, women are considered to be inferior to men and are not granted equal rights or protection under the laws. The governments, religions and cultures of this country support the inequalities, thus allowing vicious crimes against women to continue without any recourse by the victims. The phrase "women's rights" refers to the basic human rights that are withheld from women simply because they are women. Women's rights promote political, social and economic equality for women in a society that traditionally confers more status and freedom to men. A basic right is for girls to grow up to be women: today twelve percent of the females born worldwide are missing, many of them victims of infanticide. Other women's rights include: the right to live free of physical abuse, the right to live free of sexual exploitation, the right to health care and nutrition, the right to an acceptable standard of living, the right to chose her own partner, the right to vote, the right to control property, and the right to equal treatment before the law along with freedom of speech (amnesty.org).
"Like all societies on earth, Palestinian society suffers from the problem of violence against girls and women - violence that is based solely on the basis of gender and directed against females. Violence acquires different forms and occurs in various degrees, including psychological, physical, sexual, economic and political dimensions. It can take the shape of beating or physical humiliation, psychological terror or verbal abuse. It can sometimes be sexual harassment and sexual assault, incest, rape, threats to kill, or femicide (also known as "honour" killings)."(wclac.org) Gender-related violence is something that in this modernized society it's still hard to comprehend and yet it continues to happen in Palestinian society.