The Zenobiya Women’s Union has been the umbrella organization of Arab women in North and East Syria since 2021 and is therefore primarily represented in the regions of Raqqa, Tabqa, Minbic and Deir ez-Zor.
Women’s shelters of the Women’s Protection Office, affiliated to the AANES Women’s Council, aim to protect women from all kinds of oppression by the patriarchal mindset.
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. RIC interviewed Arzo Tammo, the coordinator of Sara’s Qamishlo center. Sara is an organization specifically created to address violence against women, such as combating kidnapping and underage marriage.
With the participation of first year students from the Faculty of Agriculture in Rojava, a volunteer day was organised to collect seeds (Kizwan) trees as part of the #FromEverySeedTree campaign launched by the Green Tresses Environmental Association in Northeast Syria.
Large-scale agricultural production in Turkey and North Kurdistan is based on brutal exploitation, which particularly affects women, who do not even receive 16 euros for twelve-hour days in sweltering heat.
The Sara Organization to Combat Violence against Women organizes awareness-raising activities to create a society without violence.
Environmental Committees are being formed in schools in Amuda, as part of a collaboration between the Keziyên Kesk Environmental Association and the Education Authority of the Jazira Canton.
64 years have passed since the Amouda cinema fire, killing 283 Kurdish schoolchildren. The cinema has been rebuilt in cooperation with the Municipalities Union of Jazira Canton and the Rojava Film Commune.
Citizens and farmers in Hajin are repairing and cleaning canals and irrigation areas belonging to cooperatives working in the field of agriculture in a collective way.
A café run by women has opened in the province of Mardin, which is governed by the DEM party. “Coffee JIN” is a municipal project to promote women’s participation in public life.
Mardin’s (Mêrdîn) pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party-led municipality has inaugurated Coffee JIN, a café exclusively staffed by women, aiming to promote women’s participation in social life. The initiative is part of a broader effort to boost women’s employment and create supportive spaces for women in the city.
Cizre Canton Union of Municipalities made a statement about the latest wave of attacks by the Turkish state against North-East Syria.
