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The Syrian feminist movement essentially began towards the end of the 1800s, during the time period in which modern Lebanon and Syria were occupied by the Ottoman Empire. It was during the time of Arabic Nahba, or awakening, in which what some women began to pioneer movements in the interests of their rights and liberties. [13]
The Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union (al-Ittihad al-Nisa'i al-Suri al-Lubnani) was a women's organization in Lebanon and Syria, founded in the 1920s and active until 1946. It has also been called Lebanese Women’s Union, Syro-Lebanese Feminist Union, Syrian Arab Women's Union and Arab Women’s Union.
Historically, the women´s movement in Syria had been represented by the Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union (1920-1946), but the Women's Union was split when Syria and Lebanon split in 1946. In 1963, the Ba’th Arab Socialist Party became the ruling party of Syria. The Ba’th’s own constitution aims for social and political reform, one of these ...
Georgette Barsoum (Syriac: ܓܘܪܓܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡ, Arabic: جُورْجِيت بَرْصُوم) is an Assyrian human rights and feminist activist. Involved in organizing feminist struggles in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, particularly as the coordinator of the Kongreya Star Congress, she was elected president of the Syriac Women's Union in April 2024.
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Additionally, the Syrian Women's Political Movement was created and is aiming for a 30% quota of women participating in conflict resolution processes. [19] The "It Takes a Woman" campaign was launched by UN Women in 2017 to raise awareness of Syrian women activists involved in both formal and informal peace processes, highlighting public debate ...
Syria, [d] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [e] [14] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest.