Hasakah forum calls for women’s solidarity to end violence on Syria’s coast and promote justice

HASAKAH — A dialogue forum titled Syrian Women’s Solidarity: A Key to Ending Massacres Against Women on the Coast was held in Hasakah, Gozarto (Jazira) Canton, North and East Syria, focusing on the violence faced by women in Syria’s coastal areas.

Organized by the Joint Platform for Women’s Movements and Organizations in North and East Syria, the event brought together representatives from the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), women’s rights groups, legal organizations, and various political factions. The forum began with a moment of silence, followed by an opening speech from Sabah Shabo of the Women’s Council Coordination in North and East Syria. She underscored the parallels between the atrocities against women in the coastal region and the violations experienced in North and East Syria, advocating for solidarity and praising the humanitarian efforts of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAARNES) and the Kurdish Red Crescent.

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Discussions centered on atrocities committed against women and their response to the constitutional declaration. Women from Syria’s coastal region shared harrowing accounts of mass killings of civilians and airstrikes on villages.

The forum concluded with a set of recommendations, including:

• Establishing international investigative committees to document crimes against women.
• Implementing transitional justice mechanisms to hold perpetrators accountable.
• Enforcing UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 2254 to protect women’s rights and ensure their political participation.

Participants also emphasized the importance of empowering women in decision-making, involving them in Syria’s reconstruction, and drafting a new constitution that guarantees justice, pluralism, and gender equality while abolishing the current constitutional declaration.