Union of Palestinian Women's Committees
The Union of Palestinian Women's Committees is a Palestinian non-profit organization founded in 1980 "to empower Palestinian women on all levels and to contribute in the Palestinian national struggle against the Israeli military illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories".
In October 2021, UPWC was designated a terrorist organization by Israel, together with five other Palestinian non-profit, non-governmental organizations. The designation was condemned by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights who called it a "frontal attack on the Palestinian human rights movement and on human rights everywhere."
In July 2022, nine EU countries issued a joint statement saying they would continue working with these six Palestinian organisations that Israel had banned because Israel had failed to prove that they should be considered terrorist groups.
On 18 August 2022, Israeli forces raided the headquarters of the six organisations along with the Union of Health Work Committees in Ramallah and al-Bireh, removed computers and equipment and ordered their closure.