Hesekê has long been liberated from ISIS terror, but the jihadists’ mines and booby traps still lurk everywhere in the canton in northeastern Syria. Three women want to change that. Their vision: risking lives to save lives.
Successive urban renewal projects in Diyarbakır’s (Amed’s) two strategic districts, Sur and Bağlar, might be designed to achieve hidden objectives of the Turkish state. These are the sentiments expressed by a number of urban specialists and residents, who suspect that under the discourse of ‘modernization’ and ‘economic revival’, there might be a secret agenda aimed at gentrification, assimilation and displacement of poor Kurdish citizens.
The second largest water station in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor has returned to work, Saud al-Muhammad, the head of the Municipality of Gharanij, 90 km east of Deir ez-Zor, said on Wednesday.
Almost the first sight that greets new arrivals in Rojava is endless ranks of oil derricks stretching out into the desert, hauling up tens of thousands of barrels of low-quality crude every day and leaving the surrounding soil polluted and oozing when struck with a spade. For international volunteers drawn to the Kurdish-led autonomous regions by their vision of a feminist, direct-democratic, ecological society, it can be a shocking sight.
Rojava University graduates start to work for Autonomous Administration institutions in areas related to their branches.
On Monday, Suleiman Arab, co-chair of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) Local Administration Board in Jazira, said that they have completed more than 30% of the project to draw water from the Euphrates River to Hasakah.
Şeddadê District Women’s Economy Committee provides employment opportunities for women with economic difficulties, unemployed or trapped in the home, in the Al-Hasakah (Hesekê) canton of North East Syria. Developing new projects to integrate women into economical life, the committee also continues to support ongoing projects of women. The committee previously founded a bakery in the
Aya Plastic Factory, in the town of Girke Lege in northeastern Syria, seeks to develop its production, especially of household electrical wiring supplies.
Despite the widespread dismissal of HDP mayors and their replacement by government appointed trustees, Kars Municipality – still under the co-chairmanship of Ayhan Bilgen and Şevin Alaca – is carrying out important activities on such issues as nourishment, co-operatives, and women’s rights. Ayhan Bilgen, who has spent many years in politics and has been working
The Democratic Society Movement (TEV-DEM) has continued its organizational activities with different professional associations in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah neighborhoods in 2020.
Vegetable cultivation is gradually increasing in Manbij with the support of the Agriculture Committee.
The Judi factory for producing bulgur in Qamishli, northeast Syria, secures job opportunities for male and female workers in the area, and secures the basic needs for food production in northeast Syria in cooperation with the region’s other factories.
