Women of Deir ez-Zor, who started working for the municipalities affiliated to Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria after the city was liberated from ISIS, spoke to NuJINHA about their work.
Farmers in the northern countryside of Raqqa complain about the lack of water in the main channels and the drought of artesian wells which exposed agricultural crops to damage.
A sewing workshop in Deir ez-Zor, NE Syria, promotes women’s economic empowerment by organizing training courses for them.
In March 2019 when North and East Syria was fully liberated, the focus on the fight against ISIS switched from a military campaign to economic and humanitarian recovery for the affected people. In order to ensure a lasting defeat of ISIS, the poor socio-economic conditions that the organization took advantage of in the first place have to be sufficiently addressed.
The Kesiyên Kesk project started in October 2020.
But when we speak of social diplomacy, we mean something different. Not in the interest of some elites or states, but in the interest of marginalized peoples, exploited people or activists, i.e. 99% of the people. This is diplomacy in the classical sense of the word: connecting people from different religions, ethnicities, cultures, countries, with different views, to be able to develop strength together. Where states try to divide and rule or allow only one dominant culture, one way of thinking and living, social democracy, in contrast, creates the basis for diversity and for people to connect with each other. Creating opportunities to know and understand each other, to find solutions and social alternatives together. This is the practice of social democracy.
While the Euphrates Women’s Sewing Workshop provides employment for women, the workshop is a women’s success story of “breaking chains” for women working in the workshop.
As Turkey is reducing the levels of water in the Euphrates River, the production of electricity supplied to the cities in North and East Syria has dramatically decreased.
Retailers and traders in Derik city, northeast Syria, call venture capitalists and production expertise to set up industrial plants in Derik.
After the revolution in North and East Syria, women obtain their economic rights and achievements. Agricultural projects support women’s economic empowerment.
Women of Deir ez-Zor, who have started reaping barley and wheat crops, complain that they could not get the desired results from the crops due to the insufficient rainfall and the low water level of the Euphrates River.
The city of Manbij is now one of the most important industrial centers in northern Syria, as it is a transportation hub and sits on a commercial road linking the Autonomous Administration held areas with the areas of the Syrian government, in addition to opposition-held areas in northern Syria.
