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 under the new Islamist government, women have virtually none. Mural celebrating women’s rights in Qamishli, Rojava. Photo by Antonio Graceffo. Even in Rojava, those rights were not handed to women. They earned them on the battlefield. During the Syrian civil war, the YPJ (Women’s Protection Units) and YPG (People’s Protection Units) fought against several groups in…
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