But I came alive and I could hold it in my hand," Salem, executive director of the Syrian Women's Political Movement, told The Current's host Matt Galloway. "I felt that I owned the country.

The international community should focus on empowering Syria’s local civil society groups and advocating for women’s rights ...

The pictures show an individual whose face is blurred dressed in women's clothing sitting on a sofa, and another person wearing makeup with their hair covered. They circulated after the Syrian ...

In Syria's capital, Damascus, there are hole-in-the-wall beauty parlors on nearly every street, places for women to chat while getting blowouts and manicures. And when NPR's Diaa Hadid visited a ...

Women from Swaysa village and surrounding areas in Syria’s Quneitra province, which is under Israeli military occupation, are calling for an end to the Israeli aggression and the withdrawal of ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) As the international community celebrates the fall of another dictatorship following the collapse of Syria's Assad regime, the future of women's rights remains precarious.