Empowering Women

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Role of Syrian women evolves as war rages on

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Real news and stories from Syria

Future Syrian Governments Must Address Women’s Right to Equality

Alia Ahmed

The Syrian constitution and laws contain many articles that are unjust to women and treat them unequally compared to men.

Although the constitution was amended soon after the start of...

http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/syria-has-a-massive-rape-crisis

Syria has a massive rape crisis

By Lauren Wolfe/Director — April 3, 2013

A mother hides her identity as she holds her baby aloft from the family tent in Zaatari, a refugee camp for Syrians in...

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THURSDAY 28 MARCH 2013

Rape and sham marriages: the fears of Syria's women refugees

JACKIE LONG Social Affairs Editor

Thousands of Syrians fled to Jordan's Zataari refugee camp to escape violence at home. But now women and children live in fear of kidnap, rape and sham marriages in the camp meant to keep them safe.

If agony has a sound, it is the cry to God made by 100-year-old Shatwah, a...

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Florian Seefried / Getty Images Model and writer Waris Dirie, shown in 2010, is an advocate against female genital mutilatio...

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“Women: The Forgotten Victims” by Aida Dalati

Friday, December 28th, 2012

http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/are-women-being-targeted-in-syria

Are women being targeted in Syria?

By Lauren Wolfe/Director — December 10, 2012

The baby's body was found near a checkpoint on the road that connects Homs with the ancient city of Palmyra, in central Syria, in January. At four months old, she was said to have been given over...

http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/revealing-rape-how-to-illustrate-a-crime

Revealing rape: How to illustrate a crime

By Lauren Wolfe/Director — December 6, 2012

Women describe their rapes from behind black face scarves in videos on our site that documents sexualized violence in Syria. We have no photos of women whose faces aren’...

Women in Cairo's Tahrir Square protested on the second anniversary of the revolution on Jan. 25.

By MAYY EL SHEIKH and DAVID D. KIRKPATRIC

Published: March 25, 2013

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Some Facts About Domestic Violence

• Average number of times an abuser hits his spouse before she makes a police report: 35

• Estimated number of children, worldwide, exposed to domest...