Report preparation process supervised by: Syrian Women’s Association
Participating organizations: ADAD, My Home is Your Home, Syrian Women’s Gathering for Democracy, Tulip, Northern Dynamics, Equal Citizenship Center, Syrian Women’s Organization, Citizenship-Equality for Women, and Naseej.
Experts: Salma Al-Sayyad, Economic Expert
“Syria is experiencing exceptional circumstances that began in 2011 with peaceful popular protests. Due to the security solutions adopted by the ruling regime and regional interventions, the situation transformed into an armed conflict, which continues to this day despite a significant decrease in fighting levels.
Syrian women have paid a heavy price in this conflict, being subjected to all forms of violence common in armed conflicts: displacement, bombing, arrest, kidnapping, and killing. Many women have been raped in detention centers, and a specific form of dress has been imposed on women in some areas. This is in addition to the medieval violence imposed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in some Syrian regions. Thousands of Syrian women remain victims of enforced disappearance. Syrian girls have also suffered from dropping out of school, the spread of early marriage, and a lack of protection. This is in addition to the emergence of various forms of human trafficking affecting women and girls. The Syrian government has not worked to develop and adopt a national plan to implement Security Council Resolution 1325.