BEIRUT – The first session of the conference, which was organized by the Women’s Life Association, the Newroz Community Association, and the Nun Initiative for the Freedom of Leader Abdullah Ocalan, with the motto “Following Jiyan Jiyan Azadi”, ended. 80 delegates from Tunisia, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Syria and Iran, as well as representatives of women’s organizations in Shengal and Northern and Eastern Syria attended the conference.
In the first session conducted by Sena Xenîme, President of the Women and Pioneer Association, Werdet Butrus-Equality of Women’s Activities Association President Dr. Mari Dibis discussed the serhildans of the Arab people, the impact of foreign interventions on Arab women, and the People’s Spring.
‘WAR AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES AFFECT WOMEN THE MOST’
“The advanced democratic forces could not resist the counter-revolution because most of them were in prison at that time,” said Dibis, noting that the world of Arab women has changed only after 12 years.
Emphasizing that the war and state policies had the most negative impact on women, Vice President of Women’s Life Association Büşra Elî said, “With the support of the Turkish state, the incidence of violence against women has increased significantly in Amed, and according to the 2019 report, 838 cases of violence against women occurred in just 5 months.” said.
Kerîme El Hefnawî from the Egyptian Women’s Rights Protection and Women’s National Front touched upon the situation of women in Africa, the biggest victim of a group of regional crises.
Kerîme El Hefnawî stated that women in the African continent are exposed to criminal violations such as racism, physical and psychological violence and sexual assault, and emphasized that one out of every three women is attacked by sexual, physical and psychological violence, and that there is no law to protect women from domestic violence in all six African countries.
In the second session of the conference, “Experiences of Kurdish women in the crisis of the region”, and in the last session, “The views of comrade intellectual Abdullah Öcalan on your journey to women’s freedom” will be discussed.
