Mapping the Role of Women in Syria's Future – Resource Hub
This hub collects and curates key resources documenting how Syrian women are shaping the country’s post-conflict future. Updated weekly, this multilingual hub aims to provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of materials for researchers, policymakers, and advocates.
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Siria: un altro domani (ISPI, Feb 2025)
What will minority and women’s rights look like in the new Syria? (Atlantic Council, Dec 2024)
Syria’s National Dialogue Conference: A Missed Opportunity (Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Feb 2025)
Rethinking UN Sanctions on Syria’s Interim Leaders (International Crisis Group, Feb 2025)
In a New Era for Syria, States Must Take Responsibility for Their Islamic State-Affiliated Prisoners and Families (Just Security, Feb 2025)
How Syria’s ‘Diversity-Friendly’ Jihadists Plan on Building a State (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Dec 2024)
Actualités sur la Syrie (Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, Dec 2024)
Europe’s strategy in Syria aims to avoid another Afghanistan (LSE, Feb 2025)
Women’s Defamation Campaigns: Is the Threat Over? (Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, Feb 2025)
Women delegates weigh in on Syria’s national dialogue conference (Syria Direct, Feb 2025)
Celebrate Ramadan in Zaatari, the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp (Kcrw, Feb 2025)
21 children and three women among 94 civilians killed in explosions of war ordnance across Syria (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Mar 2025)
222 Civilian Deaths, Including 17 Children and 37 Women, as well as Nine Deaths Due to Torture, Recorded in February 2025 in Syria (ReliefWeb, Mar 2025)
Syria Update #20: 2 March 2025 (ReliefWeb, Mar 2025)
Child injured by landmine explosion in Idlib countryside (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Mar 2025)
Syria (OCHA, Feb 2025)
Syria Emergency Response Situation Report #7, February 12, 2025 (Reliefweb, Feb 2025)
Syria Emergency Response Situation Report #8, February 27, 2025 (Reliefweb, Feb 2025)
Sida’s work in Syria (Sida, Dec 2024)
Syria Regional Refugee Response (UNCHR, Dec 2024)
Syrie – Conférence du dialogue national (France Diplomatie, fév 2025)
Syria – Arrival of French diplomatic mission in Damascus (France Diplomacy, Dec 2024)
Standing in Solidarity: Feminist Leaders Driving Change in Syria (Global Fund for Women, Dec 2024)
Lettre ouverte des femmes internationales pour une Syrie démocratique fondée sur la liberté des femmes (Presse-toi à gauche, fév 2025)
Post-Assad, Syria’s IDPs confront a deadly return to crumbling homes and hidden landmines (The New Arab, Feb 2025)
‘I left as a child’: Yusra Mardini returns to Syria after a decade of fleeing war (AlArabiya, Mar 2025)
‘Zenobia’s legacy challenges and encourages women to actively participate in building Syria’s future’ (Medya News, Jan 2025)
Caring for mothers and newborns: Wafaa Al-Doush’s commitment to maternal health (WHO, Feb 2025)
Breaking Free: Women’s right in Post-Assad Syria – People’s Palace Project (Queen Mary University of London, Jan 2025)
Women of Syria Call for Unity and Peace (Wilson Center, Dec 2024)
Honoring Syrian Stories Through Art (refugeenetwork, Feb 2025)
The lives of 10.6 million women in Syria were placed on hold during 14 years of war (afh_international, Feb 2025)
Women in NE Syria announce the start of actions for March 8 with the slogan “With ‘Women Live Freedom’ we will build a democratic Syria (starrcongress, Feb 2025)
Women in Syria have faced unimaginable challenges during the Assad regime (Women for Women International, Dec 2024)
The rights and dignity of women ans girls in Syria must be upheld (OCHA Syria, Dec 2024)
Great to meet Syrian women leaders – activists, journalists & academics – from all over Syria to hear their vision for the future (U.S. Embassy Syria, Dec 2024)
Women delegates weight in on Syria’s national dialogue conference (SyriaDirect, Feb 2025)
Horrifying news: Yesterday, 19 women were killed in a car bomb explosion in Menbij, eastern Aleppo (OCHA Syria, Mar 2025)
Who Syria (X, Mar 2025)
The voices rising today are the voices of all Syrian women (X, Mar 2025)
IRC psychologist named one of BBC’s 100 Women of the year 2024 (IRC, Dec 2024)
Letter from Syria’s women to the UN: We must shape the future of Syria (The Syria Campaign, Dec 2024)
How to win the peace in Syria: Statement from the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WALS) (ICAN, Dec 2024)
A new Syria is born: MEMO in Conversation with Sarah Hunaidi (MEMO, Feb 2025)
An inside look at camps for ISIL-linked detainees in Syria (AlJazeera, Feb 2025)
The Women Leaders podcast : Syria unbound (The Women Leaders – European Leadership Network, Dec 2024)
What next for Syria’s women ? (ABC listen, Dec 2024)
Woman’s Hour, Amy Dowden, Syrian Women’s Affairs Office, Nancy in Oliver! (BBC, Dec 2024)
Syrie : les femmes sur tous les fronts (ARTE, fév 2025)
Voices of women peacebuilders (Berghof foundation, Feb 2025)
La Syrie sur la bonne voie ? (FRANCE 24, fév 2025)
Syria’s promise: Will new masters of Damascus deliver unity and justice? (FRANCE 24 English, Feb 2025)
Aisha Al Dibs, Head of Syria’s Women’s Affairs Office, Syria after Assad (AlJazeera, Feb 2024)
Syria’s govt pledges greater women’s inclusion in social and political spheres (AlJazeera, Feb 2025)
Syrian leader promises inclusive government (DW News, Feb 2025)
Syrian regime sexual abuse survivors speak out (TRT World, Feb 2025)
Women in Peace Processes: Reflections from Syria, Sudan, and Yemen (Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Feb 2025)
UN: Press Conference on Women’s Role in Syrian Peace Process (UN Web TV, Jen 2025)
Women in conflict zone (World BEYOND War, 19 Mar 2025)
970 civilians including women, children killed by Syrian security forces since March 6: monitor (The New Region, Mar 2025)
Syria: Al-Sharaa swears in new government including Christian woman, four months after Assad ouster (The New Arab, Mar 2025)
Why Syrian women are the cornerstone of radical change and rebuilding efforts in post-Assad Syria (The New Arab, Mar 2025)
Women’s ‘Political, Economic’ Rights Enshrined In Syria Constitutional Declaration (Barron’s, Mar 2025)
Zenobia Women’s Gathering announces support for people in coast (ANHA, Mar 2025)
After a decade of war, Syrian women must lead the path to recovery (The New Arab, Mar 2025)
An inclusive Syria? Sectarian violence fuels fears for women too (The Times, Mar 2025)
Zenobia Women’s Gathering rejects “Constitutional Declaration” (ANHA, 2025)
Women Protest in Syria’s Qamishli Against Syria’s Constitutional Declaration (NPA Syria, Mar 2025)
Kurdish Women’s Conference: Unity of peoples starts with women (ANHA, Mar 2025)
Mass graves of men, women, and children uncovered in Syria reveal atrocities of the Assad government (Milwaukee Independent, Mar 2025)
Series of events commemorating International Women’s Day (ANHA, Mar 2025)
Turkish, British officials to discuss post-Assad Syria in Ankara talks (VOA News, Mar 2025)
Syria Forms Committee To Draft Transitional Constitutional Declaration (Barron’s, Mar 2025)
Women’s Civil Organizations in North and East Syria Welcome British Delegation (SyriacPress, Mar 2025)
Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Meets with the Kurdistan Women’s Union (ARK News, Mar 2025)
Syriac Women’s Union Concludes Dialogue Forum with Final Statement (SyriacPress, Mar 2025)
How Do Syria’s Islamists View Culture? Unlike Taliban, They See Art as ‘Part of Humanity’ (SCMP, Mar 2025)
Kongra Star Begins March 8 Activities with Various Cultural and Artistic Events in Aleppo (Hawar News, Mar 2025)
Essen: The City Where Women Divorce (Aljumhuriya, Mar 2025)
In Syria’s Al-Hol and Roj camps, Moroccan women and children plead for repartition (The New Arab, Feb 2025)
Syria: 1000 bodies unearthed at Mazzeh Airport (Shafaq News, Feb 2025)
Talks on Syria’s Future Fall Short of Promises, Participants Say (The New York Times, Feb 2025)
Bethnahrin Women’s Union marks 23 years of advocating for equality and empowerment (SyriacPress, Feb 2025)
Visit of a Delegation of Foreign Activists and Journalists to YPJ (YPJ, Feb 2025)
Displaced women in Damascus: We cannot make ends meet (Jinha, Feb 2025)
Popular resistance at Tishrin Dam on day 48 (ANF News, Feb 2025)
Bahrainis fear Islamist tyranny in Syria (Amwaj, Feb 2025)
Syria’s interim leader launches national dialogue on political transition (AlJazeera, Feb 2025)
Syria’s national dialogue conference held as the battered country seeks to rebuild (AP, Feb 2025)
Syrian Parties: Any conference without full representation hold no value (ANHA, Feb 2025)
Female Politicians: Autonomous Administration ensures justice for all Syrians (ANHA, Feb 2025)
Syria: doubts increase over new regime’s commitment to women’s rights and inclusivity
(The Conversation, Feb 2025)
From Jihadist to President: The Evolution of Syria’s New Leader (The New York Times, Feb 2025)
Syrians express hope and skepticism as national dialogue conference kicks off (AP, Feb 2025)
Women and minorities attend Syrian National Dialogue Conference (Vatican news, Feb 2025)
‘The National Dialogue does not represent the Syrian people’ (Jinha, Feb 2025)
Key takeaways from Syria’s National Dialogue conference (AlJazeera, Feb 2025)
‘We are still at war’: Syria’s Kurds battle Turkey months after Assad’s fall (BBC, Feb 2025)
Displaced Syrian Women Are Optimistic—but Very Cautiously So (WPR, Feb 2025)
Syrians back freedoms, constitutional process at landmark dialogue (Reuters, Feb 2025)
Syrian leader hails ‘historic’ dialogue conference (BBC, Feb 2025)
Talks on Syria’s Future Fall Short of Promises, Participants Say (The New York Times, Feb 2025)
Syria’s ‘National Dialogue’: A show or real transformation? (DW, Feb 2025)
MEP Katrin Langensiepen: There is a 50 percent gender quota, not in words but in practice (Jinha, Feb 2025)
W*a*r remnants | Two children di*ed and one injured in explosion of hand grenade in Daraa (Syriahr, Feb 2025)
Key Syrian political groups boycott National Dialogue Conference, criticise lack of inclusivity (Medya news, Feb 2025)
First event celebrating International Women’s Day kicks off in Darbasiyah (ANHA, Feb 2025)
Syrian Women’s Council rejects National Dialogue outcomes (ANHA, Feb 2025)
Idlib: Ramadan decorations secure income for Syrian women (Enabbalada, Feb 2025)
Women’s struggle in Rojava: Ronahi Hassan’s call to action (Medya news, Feb 2025)
‘All Syrian women must play their role in building the new Syria’ (Jinha, Feb 2025)
Civil society in the New Syria (Eurozine, Feb 2025)
YPJ commander: Victory will be for the people of North and East Syria (Jinha, Feb 2025)
Fact or fiction? Syria plans to erase Queen Zenobia from history books over claims she never existed (euronews, Feb 2025)
En Syrie, les femmes déterminées à ne « rien lâcher » (La Croix, fév 2025)
Syrie : avec les femmes du Rojava décidées à préserver leurs acquis (Mediapart, fév 2025)
En Syrie, dans les camps de djihadistes, le risque du chaos (Mediapart, fév 2025)
Syrie : la lente reconstruction du camp de réfugiés de Yarmouk (Chronique de Palestine, fév 2025)
En Syrie, la plaie béante des massacres de Tadamone (Le Monde, fév 2025)
Le forze curde siriane accolgono con favore la richiesta di Ocalan (Corriere del Ticino, Feb 2025)
Alterazione dei geni umani, la violenza incide sui cambiamenti: uno studio su nonne e nipoti rifugiati siriani (Corriere della Sera, Feb 2025)
I segni dei traumi subiti dalle donne vittime di violenza sono nei geni di figli e nipoti: come è possibile (fanpage.it, Feb 2025)
Siria: al via oggi la Conferenza per il dialogo nazionale (Ansa, Feb 2025)
L’Europa sospende le sanzioni alla Siria: “Pronti a reintrodurle senza rispetto delle minoranze” (EuropaToday, Feb 2025)
Siria, Mourad: siamo un Paese indebolito che ha bisogno di vera giustizia (VaticanNews, Feb 2025)
Siria, al Sharaa annuncia l’istituzione del comitato di giustizia di transizione (RaiNews, Feb 2025)
‘Dialogo nazionale’ in Siria mette al bando gruppi armati (Ansa, Feb 2025)
Dal cuore del Rojava. Difendere la rivoluzione (Umanità Nova, Feb 2025)
Siria: la Conferenza di dialogo nazionale condanna la violazione di Israele alla sovranità dello Stato (Agenzia Nova, Feb 2025)
European ministers press new Syrian rulers for inclusion of minorities, women in process (The Arab Weekly, Jan 2025)
New Syrian government’s school curriculum changes spark concern (BBC, Jan 2025)
Zenobia stands tall as Syrian national curriculum changes reveal fears over her legacy (Medya News, Jan 2025)
‘From nationalist to Islamist’: Syria’s de facto rulers order sweeping reforms to school curriculum (The Cradle, Jan 2025)
‘What I achieved will be destroyed overnight’: Syrian women judges face uncertain future under new leadership (The New Arab, Jan 2025)
Rihan Loqo: Women must build the new Syrian constitution (ANF News, Dec 2024)
How will women fare in a new Syria ? (France 24, Dec 2024)
Women prisoners told ‘you can go out now’ by Syrian rebels (BBC, Dec 2024)
Syria Will Be Democratic and Pluralist With Women Free to Dress as They Want: Vice President, NCORFS (The Wire, Dec 2024)
Uncertainty over future of Syrian camp holding women, children linked to ISIS (CBS News, Dec 2024)
Syria is free, Syrian women must be free (Medium, Dec 2024)
US said it will support new Syrian leaders who protect women and renounce terrorism (AP, Dec 2024)
‘There are indications of setbacks in women’s freedom in Syria’, says the Brazilian ambassador to the country (O Globo, Dec 2024)
Stand aside for Syria’s women (Middle East Monitor, Dec 2024)
Without Women’s Rights, Syria Risks Failed-State Status (Foreign Policy, Dec 2024)
Concerned about HTS position on women’s rights, democracy, Syrians demonstrate (Arab Weekly, Dec 2024)
Where to now for Syria’s Women ? (New Internationalist, Dec 2024)
Women will play a key role in a new Syria, says minister (AlJazeera, Dec 2024)
Syria rebel leaders dismisses controversy over photo with woman (BBC, Dec 2024)
Women to play major role in rebuilding Syria, says head of women’s affair (AlJazeera, Dec 2024)
New Syrian Government’s Head of Women’s Affairs Supports Hamas,Opposes Gender Equality, Believes U.S. Officials are Criminal (MEMRI, Dec 2024)
Aisha al-Dibs appointed as head of Women’s Affairs Office in Syria (AA, Dec 2024)
Women’s Affairs Department Established to Address Women’s Rights (Levant24, Dec 2024)
New Syrian authorities announce creation of women’s affairs department (Aurora Israel, Dec 2024)
“No to Religious Rule”: Hundreds Protest For Democracy, Women’s Rights in Syria (NDTV, Dec 2024)
Syrian Activists Outraged Over Obaida Arnaout’s Remarks on Women’s Role in Future Syria (The Syrian Observer, Dec 2024)
‘Free, civil Syria’: Hundreds protest in Damascus for women’s rights, democracy (AlArabiya, Dec 2024)
Women rally for equal rights in Syria after Assad’s fall to Islamists (Reuters, Dec 2024)
Syrian women display ‘Colors of Syria’ with hope, unity (AA, Dec 2024)
Syrian Women Rally for Equal Rights Post Assad Ouster (CNN News 18, Dec 2024)
Women take center stage in Syria’s new government (TrtWorld, Dec 2024)
In Searched of Loved Ones, Syrian Women Face Horror of Assad’s Regime (NYTimes, Dec 2024)
Controversy After Aisha al-Dibs Statements on Role of Syrian Women (Syrian Observer, Dec 2024)
Syrian Islamist Rulers Shun the Taliban Governance Model (RFEL, Dec 2024)
En Syrie, les femmes s’inquiètent pour leur droit sous HTC (L’Orient le Jour, déc 2024)
En Syrie, la méfiance des femmes face au nouveau pouvoir (Le Monde, déc 2024)
Syrian women’s distrust of the new government (Le Monde, Dec 2024)
Le nouveau gouvernement syrien opprime déjà les femmes. A quel avenir peuvent-elles s’attendre ? (The Conversation, Janv 2025)
‘We’ve proved that we can do anything’: the Syrian women who want to stay in running the country (Guardian, Janv 2025)
Women Ars Syria’s Best Hope for Lasting Peace. Will They Be Heard ? (The Persistent, Janv 2025)
Syria’s new leaders appoint first women to lead its central bank (NBC News, Dec 2024)
With fears about the future, some Syrian women find confort in beauty parlors (NPR, Dec 2024)
Kurds, women must be included in Syria’s transition, European ministers say (Reuters, Jan 2025)
Handshake-gate in Syria (Politico, Jan 2025)