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Interview: “Kobanê was like Stalingrad” – YPG commander of the battle for Kobanê from Lower Class Magazine
We translated an interview from the German Lower Class Magazine that they made on the battle for Kobane with a YPG commander. “When I think about what I experienced now, it feels like I’m remembering a movie. I sometimes wonder if it all really happened like that” This is certainly not the first time you have heard these words. You come across them again and again, in books with imaginary …
Trust in women not in states – 2nd week of Global Action Month
Global action weeks in January “Women Defend Rojava” has called for global weeks of action in January. Under the heading “We are not silent! We will defend the women’s revolution in Rojava!” the campaign aims to draw public attention to the events in northern and eastern Syria through numerous actions. It is important to support the people of Syria in building a democratic system instead of simply appointing new rulers. …
With the unity of women we will build a democratic Syria
On January 7, 2025, Kongra Star held a consultative women’s forum on the role of women in a new Syria. More than 500 hundred women from various organizations and from different ethnic and cultural groups participated and discussed the role of women for a democratic Syria. The meeting ended with a final declaration of all the participants. This is the final declaration: Final declaration of the consultative women’s forum on …
Statement of Free Women’s Foundation in Syria
The women’s foundation Wjas did a Statement on the current Situation: “[…] we, as the Free Women’s Foundation in Syria, support the hands and voices that have risen in condemnation and protest against the statements of the Islamist Aisha al-Dabs. We perceive her statements as an attack against the achieved gains. Therefore we take this opportunity to call for the broadest forms of solidarity with women in Syria. We call …
Call for: Global Action Weeks for the Women’s Revolution!
Global call for January 2025 for feminist action weeks: We won´t remain silent! We defend the women’s revolution in Rojava! Women’s liberation is the heart of a democratic Syria!#TrustInWomenNotStates For weeks, a war has been raging against the Democratic Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria. The Turkish army is threatening Kobanê with tanks and bombing it with drones and warplanes, while the fighters of the Turkish-controlled SNA are attacking …
Video – #Women’s Voices from Rojava: On Turkish Occupation & society’s organizing
As Women Defend Rojava, we recently visited the women of Kongra Star in Qamishlo City, who have organized shelters and aid for the people who have fled the Shehba and Aleppo region since the new wave of attacks by Turkish militias began. Watch our video of it.
Declaration of Syrian Women’s Council
The Syrian Women’s Council made a declaration on the current situation of women in Syria demanding an end of violence against women. Furthermore, the Syrian Women’s Council calls to implement women’s rights and stresses that women must take part in the political processes constituting the future of Syria. Read the Declaration below: As women living in Syria, we have lived for many years under the Baath regime’s nationalist and unilateralist …