Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by EL-HUSSEINI Rola
A couple of years ago, I saw a discussion on Facebook of the impact of migration on Arab families. The mainly male writers were arguing that leaving the protection of the homeland has destroyed the fabric of Syrian families and society in the diaspora. They believed it had led Syrian women (...)
, by AL-SHAMI Leila
Women and girls at Farouq camp, northern Idlib protest against HTS. Source: Enab Baladi
In May, SMART News Agency, an oppositional media site, released a video report addressing educational and administrative corruption at Idlib University. The University is under the governance of the Syrian (...)
, by SHEIKI Mahwash
Women’s activist: “The PYD is a totalitarian ideological party that doesn’t accept other views, but it managed to take the first step towards the emancipation of women.”
Mahwash Sheiki (born 1966) is a native of al-Qamishli, north-eastern Syria. An electrical engineer and a civil activist, she (...)
, by MEREI Yasmin, STEINMAN Louise
THE IMAGES of the Syrian migrants go from harrowing to devastating: families facing batons of Hungarian police, a drowned three-year-old face-down in the surf of a Turkish beach. Then we try to grasp the reality of people still in Syria, the place that drove these refugees to risk the death of (...)
, by DIRIK Dilar
Having suffered a traumatic genocide, Yazidi women on Mount Sinjar mobilize their autonomous armed and political resistance with the PKK’s philosophy.
SHENGAL - The old Kurdish saying “We have no friends but the mountains” became more relevant than ever when on Aug. 3, 2014, the murderous (...)
, by WMW (Europe)
World March of Women Europe declaration in solidarity with women in resistance in Kurdistan.
We, 60 women from 18 European countries gathered in the European Coordination Meeting of the World March of Women in Donostia, Basque Country, salute the resistance of Kurdish women in Kobane (Rojava) (...)
, by JOYA Malalai
Malalai Joya is an activist, writer. She served as a Parliamentarian in the National Assembly of Afghanistan from 2005 until early 2007, after being dismissed for publicly denouncing the presence of warlords and war criminals in the Afghan Parliament. She is an outspoken critic of the Karzai (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Our people are suffering from great tragedies while waiting for the dawn of freedom. Ours is one of those tragedies that we endure in silence and under intentional media blackout.
Today, we speak for those who have no voice.
To shed a light on our bad conditions and daily sufferings, we have (...)
, by GHAZZAWI Razan
The battle for Syrian women’s liberation is multi-faceted; and from first-hand experience, we learn just how often the intersectional modes of oppression are themselves used to undermine power.
“They brought us by bus. We were a large group of female and male comrades. I recall that we were (...)
, by Women’s group of the coordination of Salamyeh
From demonstration to demonstration they started to get to know each other. The common link between them was their sense of responsibility towards their country usurped by the tyrannical regime that has spent all its years in power to serve its own interests. This is what motivated them to form (...)
, by ALABASTER Olivia
BEIRUT: Women political prisoners of the Damascus Central Prison, many held without charge, have begun an indefinite hunger strike to protest the conditions in which they are detained. “We are the detainees of conscience in prison of Adra in Damascus, who are in the waiting period to appear for (...)
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