English

By: Bassam al-Kadi (Supervisor of SWO)

The Kurdish Commission for Human Rights (Ar-Rasid”) has published a report on the state of human rights in Syria for the month of April 2009. However, this report, like a great number of reports on human rights in Syria, omits any mention of the situation of women and children and the disabled, and contents itself with a passing reference to the prohibition of “Women’s Day” festivities this year in Qamishle!

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Bassam al-Kadi (Supervisor of SWO)

Is the suffering of Palestinian women limited only to what happens to them under occupation? And is it enough for us to focus always on this suffering, while ignoring the corresponding suffering of Syrian and Jordanian and Egyptian and other women in this region which struggles under of the yoke of a male-chauvinist mentality in every way?
The occasion for these questions is the Syrian Commission for Family Affairs' festival dedicated to Palestinian women under the title: “Palestinian Women in International Humanitarian Law,” during which a number of events were held about Palestinian heritage and which sought to shed light on the violence that Palestinian women are exposed to under occupation, whether directly or indirectly, despite numerous treaties and international declarations.

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By: Roba Al-Hammoud

Abortion is a necessity forced on girls or women because of numerous circumstances imposed, on the one hand, by the particularities of our society and our customs, and on the other hand by our laws.

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