In 2021, Nûdem was founded as a non-governmental organization working with and towards the needs of people with disabilities in the Autonomous Region and the whole of Syria. The focus is on pedagogical and societal works aimed at societal change.
Hena Xidir, resident of Zirgan, plants seeds after collecting the remnants of war to breathe life into nature.
The final declaration of the Women’s Congress in Qamishlo has been published. The declaration includes proposals related to political, legal, economic, social, educational, and academic matters.
On 22 February 2024, the Green Tress Environmental Association distributed tree seedlings to the schools of Tirbesbiye city as part of the project ‘Environmental School – Environmental Community’, and in memory of the martyr artist Mansour Karimian. The seeds were planted two years ago and have been cared for and watered since then, in coordination between the workers in the Odeh field and the Association.
In an exclusive interview with Medya News, Khoud Al-Issa, spokesperson of the Zenobia Women’s Gathering in North and East Syria, outlines the current attacks against women in Syria and explains why the recent decision of the Syrian interim government to remove Queen Zenobia’s name from the national curriculum must be seen as an attempt to erase the history of Syrian women.
The communes in Tirbespiyê work together with the municipalities to solve the problems of citizens such as water, electricity and agriculture.
With the aim of providing tree seeds to produce plants, the Women’s Environmental Platform and Kêzîyên Kesk [Green Tress] Association participated in a day of environmental volunteer work.
Van (Wan) Metropolitan Municipality has opened a new low-cost restaurant, Kent Lokantası, in İpekyolu (Rêya Armûşê) district’s Beşyol Park. The initiative aims to support residents struggling with the ongoing economic crisis in Turkey.
In the wake of the people’s uprisings against despotic regimes in North Africa and the MiddleEast, the protests against the Assad regime in Syria also began in spring 2011. The Kurds in Rojava (Western Kurdistan), who had been oppressed for decades by the nationalist policiesof the Ba’ath dictatorship, demanded both a fundamental democratisation of Syria and recognition of their political and cultural self-determination. On 19 July 2012, the people of Kobane urged the Syrian military and the state apparatus to withdraw from the city. This was the beginning of the Rojava Revolution.
Farmers in the town of Zirgan (Abu Rasin) demand the end of the Turkish attacks because “Our food security is at risk. The ongoing Turkish attacks destroy biodiversity.”
Kayapınar Municipality in Diyarbakır (Amed), Turkey, led by the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, has opened a new library, the Library of Women’s Works .
Mona Youssef, administrator of the Jazira Canton office of the Syrian Women’s Council spoke to RIC about the recent developments in Syria, potential avenues for change and action in the current situation, and the work of the Syrian Women’s Council therein.
