Randa Siniora

She has documented human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories for three decades, and is currently general director of the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC) in Jerusalem.

Her MA thesis, a study of women textile workers in the West Bank, producing goods for Israeli companies, was later published by the American University.

Here Siniora applied the dependency theory of Arghiri Emmanuel and Samir Amin to the Palestinian situation.

From September 2007 until June 2015 Siniora was the Senior Executive Director of the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) in Palestine.

Representation of women in key decision-making positions, including in Palestinian Authority institutions, is barely 5 percent.