16 May 2024

SNC President, Dr. Bader Jamous, participated on Thursday in an event held by the Local Administration Councils Unit (LACU) on Free Aleppo University campus. The event tackled ‘Safe Environment and Women Reality’ and featured the participation of several female activists and female students from liberated areas.

During the event, the SNC President discussed the importance of such meetings between Syrian political forces and Syrian women and that they must be held regularly in order to enable women to communicate their views via the SNC and take part in political decision making. Further, he said their demands must be taken into consideration during the negotiation process aimed at reaching a comprehensive, just and durable political solution based on international resolutions, most importantly UNSCR 2254.

He further asserted the importance of women participation in all aspects of political life indicating that the SNC urges women to engage and share ideas and proposals. He pointed out that it would be impossible to reach a safe and neutral environment without a political solution based on UNSCR 2254 as it is one of the tasks of the transitional governing body with full executive powers. Jamous said the Syrian regime was neither competent nor reliable and continued to employ its oppressive security crackdown making it impossible for the regime to be part of ensuring security and stability.
He also briefly talked about the SNC’s endeavors at the Arab and international levels to keep the Syrian negotiation file alive and prioritized for these countries in addition to the challenges and obstacles facing the SNC and its future plans.

Furthermore, LACU presented a study on the relation between safe environment and women’s reality in liberated areas. The study includes a definition of safe environment from the perspective of women in liberated areas and the most important needs, standards and tools through which this environment may be reached. The outcomes of a LACU project aiming at pushing the Syrian political process by informing political actors of the interests and priorities of local community actors in north western Syria to transform these interests and priorities to clearly-set political positions which would help push the political process in accordance with UNSCR 2254.

The event was followed by some important discussions in which women took part concerning the role of women and the importance of communicating with them especially those in remote rural areas away from cities. The discussion also tackled the problems facing women in the Syrian society in general and the importance of finding decent work opportunities for them and meeting their basic needs in liberated areas. The discussion highlighted the importance of pursuing a political solution in practice in order to create a safe environment which allows women to undertake a more significant role in society in addition to raising society’s awareness on their role and impact and integrating women survivors from the regime’s violence in society and amplifying women’s voices through political negotiation actors.