Sewing workshop in Deir ez-Zor promotes women’s economic empowerment
A sewing workshop in Deir ez-Zor, NE Syria, promotes women’s economic empowerment by organizing training courses for them.
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Despite Increasing Adversity, North and East Syria Continues to Provide Services and Reconstruction
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.
Green Braids for Rojava
The Kesiyên Kesk project started in October 2020.
Social Diplomacy: Creating Tools for Peaceful Cooperation Between Peoples and Societies
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.
Euphrates Women’s Sewing Workshop becomes women’s success story
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.
Reduction of Euphrates water decreases electricity production in North-East Syria
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 In Syria’s Derik Call To Start Up Production Projects
Retailers and traders in Derik city, northeast Syria, call venture capitalists and production expertise to set up industrial plants in Derik.
Agricultural projects support women in NE Syria
After the revolution in North and East Syria, women obtain their economic rights and achievements. Agricultural projects support women’s economic empowerment.
Harvest season for barley, wheat starts in Deir ez-Zor
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.
Syria’s Manbij A Destination For Industry
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.
Autonomous women’s economy built in Rojava
A model of women’s economy is under construction in Rojava and northern and eastern Syria. Half of the agricultural land is now farmed by women’s cooperatives.
Turkish Dams Could Cause Environmental Disaster In Aleppo Region
Only one kilometer from Shahba Dam in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo governorate, , the 50-year-old farmer Mahmoud Osso is staring at his land, which he has not cultivated this year due to drought and lack of rainfall.
