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Democracy and Workers' Rights Center [Association] in Palestine (DWRC)

January 15, 2017 (updated on October 30, 2017)

Profile

Country/Territory	Palestinian Authority
Website	http://www.dwrc.org/
Founded	1993
In their own words	“A Palestinian social movement capable of influencing policies and achieving change with a democratic trade union movement at its core”

Does not publish financial information, reflecting a lack of transparency and accountability.
DWRC has received donations from the European Union and Oxfam Novib.
DWRC received $465,000 in core funding for 2014-17 from the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat (joint funding from Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands).
Between 2015-2018, DWRC, along with the Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development (PWWSD) and Cooperazione per lo Sviluppo dei Paesi Emergenti (COSPE), received €583,986 from the European Union (EIDHR) for “Enhancing Rights and Freedoms of Palestinian Workers.”

DWRC rhetoric includes accusing the “Israeli occupation” of “apartheid” and “collective punishment.”
In July 2014, DWRC described “Apartheid Israel” as a place where “a wave of open racism and intolerance has pervaded the society.”

In October 2015, at the height of a wave of terror attacks against Israelis, DWRC posted a statement of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) on Facebook and Twitter, calling on Palestinians to boycott Israel as a show of “solidarity” with the “current phase… [of] Palestinian popular resistance” and praising the “increased [] isolation of Israel and [] its regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid and occupation.”
During the 2014 Gaza conflict, DWRC posted a call to join BDS campaigns as a way to “stop this madness” committed by the “Israeli occupation army.”
In 2010, the Jerusalem Post reported that DWRC participated in a pro-BDS event hosted by the Irish trade-union.
In 2008 DWRC was a signatory to a Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) petition against the EU-Israel upgrade and calling for the suspension of the EU Association Agreement.
Signatory to the 2005 “Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS” that calls for an end to Israel’s “occupation and colonization of all Arab lands.”

The Palestinian Network of NGOs (PNGO)
The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)
The Global Network, which is part of Solidar
Workers’ Rights Defense, Advocacy and Education Network (formerly International Federation of Workers’ Education Associations in the Arab Countries [IFWEA/AC])