NAGHAM JAJAN

Qamishlo_ The Joint Events Platform for Women’s Movements and Organizations in Rojava launched its annual campaign on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which falls on 25 November. The campaign extends from the 8th to the 25th of this month and includes a range of awareness activities and programs. This annual movement comes as a platform to shed light on the repercussions of ongoing violence in its various forms on women and society, and to emphasize the necessity of intensifying joint struggle to guarantee women's rights and freedom.

In this context, the spokesperson for the Kongra Star, Kolestan Kalo, warned of the notable rise in rates of violence against women in the region during the current year.

Kolestan Kalo, following the announcement of the campaign in Qamishli city with a statement issued in three languages, pointed out that the ongoing wars and successive waves of displacement have cast dark shadows over women's lives, causing severe humanitarian suffering that has placed women's existence and their rights and societal system before serious risks and challenges requiring the pooling of efforts to confront them.

She noted that the political changes in Syria have also caused increased risks to women's rights. "Syria entered a new phase this year, but this phase is heading toward a sectarian system that places women within a narrow framework and increases violence against them. The interim government is running Syria with a sectarian mentality and is making unjust decisions against women."

The spokesperson for the Kongra Star, Kolestan Kalo, stressed the utmost importance of protecting women's gains and rights in the process of shaping the future of the new Syria, confirming the women's movement's determination to continue its struggle relentlessly. "The model that the current authority is trying to promote reduces women to a stereotypical image stripped of will and lacking identity and decision. This orientation represents a direct threat to women's existence and gains, and therefore we are determined to wage an exceptional legal and struggle battle until we ensure the full consolidation of women's rights and their constitutional protection decisively."