The Women’s Council launches a symposium entitled “The Impact of Economic Violence on Women”
The office of "Al-Hasakah" for the Syrian Women's Council, in coordination with the Civil Waves "PÊL" organization and the Peace Land Organization, organized today, Thursday, March 31, a workshop entitled "Economic violence and its repercussions on the role of women in society."
In the presence of several independent personalities and representatives of civil society organizations and parties, in the Reading Garden.
The workshop included three themes:
▪︎ First Axis:
• Denying women the opportunity to access economic resources.
• What is the purpose of depriving women of economic resources?
• What are the potential social fears of women gaining control of economic resources 0
• What are the "direct and indirect" reasons for preventing women from obtaining economic resources?
• Does preventing women from obtaining economic resources guarantee social control over them?
• What is the role of the Autonomous Administration and the concerned institutions in protecting women in the matter?
▪︎ The second axis:
Depriving women of using their economic resources.
•Why are women prevented from using or investing their economic resources?
• How dangerous is it for women to own their economic resources in the community, and does this lead to a breach of customs and traditions that restrict women's freedom.
• Why are women socially deprived of their legal right to inherit?
• Why are women's dowries controlled and prevented from freely disposing of them as a natural right?
• What is the position of the Autonomous Administration, legal institutions, and women's protection institutions in facing all those societal challenges in raping women's rights?
▪︎ Third axis:
• Exploiting women's economic resources.
• By what right is the exploitation or control of women's economic resources by the husband, father or brother "such as the monthly salary, the wages of work"?
• Why is it considered socially undesirable for women to own economic resources?
• To what degree can society accept the idea of a free, economically independent woman?
• Why is the woman considered as prey or as an investment project if she possesses economic resources or is emotionally exploited in order to obtain and dispose of those resources?
