Reporting from Syria: How the Fight Against ISIS Gained Women’s Rights in Kurdish-led Rojava, Syria

Reporting from Syria: How the Fight Against ISIS Gained Women’s Rights in Kurdish-led Rojava, Syria

Women of the Bethnahrain Women’s Protection Forces, a Christian women’s militia in Rojava, Syria. Photo courtesy of ANF. On a street corner in Qamishli, Rojava, Syria, stands a mural celebrating women’s rights. “This would be impossible in the rest of Syria,” my translator explains. In Kurdish-led Rojava, officially the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), women have equal rights with men. In the rest of Syria, particularly…