HADAF Center For Human Rights organized a workshop under the title " Volunteer's Rights In Civil Society Institutions ", within activities of its project " Promoting Youth's Rights And Civic Engagement "  funded by ( EU & NHRF ).

The workshop was attended by Dr. Yusef Safi ( HADAF's Executive Manager ) and Moheeb Sha'at ( Sharek Director ), and ( 40 ) female and male volunteers.
In his presentation, Dr. Yusef Safi indicated the importance of volunteer work, and that this kind of work faces numerous problems, specifically the little weight given to the value of this work from the side of youth themselves, and the more weight gives to the financial side. He also stressed that financial restrictions are considered the major obstacles for youth to be engaged in volunteer work.

Importantly, he indicated that HADAF's work on advocating volunteers rights has come based on a number of meeting and workshops and a study conducted by HADAF, calling youth and relevant organizations to start preparing a draft for youth's Rights Law to be introduced to the PLC.

On the other hand, Mr. Moheeb Sha'at called the attention to absence of a law that organizes volunteer work in the Palestinian Territories, and that the only law that reflects indirectly volunteers issues in the Palestinian Labor Law which stresses that an institutions should afford expresses of volunteer in case of injury within his work. He added that institutions differ in their treatment with volunteers, as some of them try to exploit volunteer to the large extent, same consider volunteers a heavy border, and other consider volunteering as a double face benefit ( volunteer gains experience, and institutions benefits from his work ) . He also added that institutions should integrate volunteer in the specialization the requires, and increasing his skills and expertise, and taking into consideration  his talents and employ them properly. He also criticized those institutions which exploit volunteers, and discriminate one from the other, or practice discrimination due to step.