In order to promote and develop WCLAC’s effectiveness in advocating for women’s rights, the Advocacy Unit builds relations and networks with civil and professional organizations and institutions, both locally and internationally. The Advocacy Unit aims to publicize and condemn Israeli occupation practices against Palestinian women as well as gender-based discrimination within Palestinian society, and to contribute to developing new laws, policies, and amendments that are gender-sensitive and that protect the rights of Palestinian women. To this end, the Advocacy Unit has been focusing on three key pieces of legislation that greatly impact the condition of Palestinian women, namely the Personal Status Law, the Criminal Law and the proposed Family Protection against Violence Law.

The Unit’s key strategies in effecting positive change in the status of Palestinian women include:
• Active participation in drafting gender-sensitive amendments and laws, as well as defending these amendments and laws in front of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and Palestinian judiciary in cooperation of a variety of coalitions, such as the Criminal Law Coalition, the Personal Status Law Coalition, and the Family Protection Law Coalition;
• Running awareness-raising programs dealing with women’s rights for other West Bank organisations and institutions working on women’s issues; and
• Participating in several Coalitions and forums to change public perceptions of women and their rights, including: the coalition for the Family Protection from Violence Law; the Coalition against Capital Punishment; the coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations; the Criminal Law Coalition; the Personal Status Law Coalition; the Media Forum (Media Forum to support women’s rights (OMQ); the Coalition against Violence Against Women (Al-Muntada); the Civil Society Coalition for Impartial Justice and Just Judiciary; the Palestinian Coalition for Safe Abortion; and the coalition for monitoring human right’s violations under the current conditions (International Humanitarian Law Forum).