Director of the Women’s Affairs Office in the Syrian Political Affairs Department, Aisha Al-Debs, confirmed that the new Syrian government will enable women to participate in all areas of political, cultural and social work.
The Syrian official said, in an interview with Al Jazeera from Damascus, that the government will provide Syrian women with the opportunity to enter community work from all its aspects according to their competence.
Aisha Al-Debs pledged strong participation of women from all governorates and sects of Syria in the national conference that will define the features of the new state.
The spokeswoman described the existence of an office for women’s affairs and her presence as a woman at the head of this office as a response to all the questions raised by some regarding the future of Syrian women under the new government.
Supporting women detainees
Aisha said goodbye to all the female detainees who left the prisons with the fall Bashar al-Assad By reporting their cases, she said that the office will begin to count these cases and conduct a comprehensive study of them in order to care for them and work to prosecute their jailers.
She pointed out that the process of opening prisons, which was carried out spontaneously and unorganized by civilians or unorganized factions, led to the destruction of some records and the loss of traces of many female detainees who were released from prisons.
Aisha stressed that the current administration will continue to work to monitor the cases of female detainees to help those released and find out their fate to support them psychologically, legally and health-wise.
Yesterday, Friday, the Political Affairs Department of the Syrian caretaker government announced the appointment of Aisha Al-Debs in charge of the Women’s Affairs Office, becoming the first woman to hold an official position in the new Syrian administration.
The administration published on its social media accounts a picture of Aisha Al-Debs along with her phone number if there is a desire to communicate “with the Women’s Affairs Office in the Political Affairs Department, which is concerned with the legal, social, cultural and political fields of Syrian women.”
Aisha Al-Debs was known for her activity in the field of civil and humanitarian work, and she also worked in the “Gifted Foundation” in IdlibIt contributed to humanitarian activity inside the Syrian camps in Türkiye.
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