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Transnational Efforts
editThe Union has, on occasion, worked with groups from different states and has called upon the United Nations and European Union for action. In 2013 the group demonstrated via sit-in at the Damascus Quarters of the United Nations, along with fellow women's groups based in Palestine and Iraq, to speak out against the United States' calls for intervention.[1] In 2011 the group petitioned the UN and EU to respond to terrorist attacks within the country and to the rape and murder of four girls by terrorist groups. The General Union of Syrian Women used this protest to speak out against foreign powers that provided aid to rebel groups, whom the women identified as terrorists.[2] In the same year the group also worked with a delegation of Turkish women to aid them in dispelling rumors about Syria and to help the union to work against foreign powers attempting to take control of the embattled country and undermine its sovereignty.[3] These incidences demonstrate a continued anti-interventionist stance by the group and a promotion of the nation's ability to self-govern.
The General Union of Syrian Women called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in 2011 to act in response to reports of the rape of Syrian women in Turkish refugee camps, citing the Fourth Geneva Convention, article 27.[4] As of March 2016 as many as two million Syrian women and children were living in Turkey[5] and many of those face risk of sexual exploitation and harassment, due in part to Syrian refugee women's lack of resources.[6] As of September 19th 2016, 193 members of the UN signed an agreement to organize a protocol for how states treat refugees with a goal of addressing sexual violence against these communities among other objectives.[7]
- ^ "Syrian women stage sit-in outside UN HQs in Damascus to protest US "threats"". BBC Worldwide Limited. BBC Monitoring Middle East. 4 September 2013 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Syrian women protest against international and Western silence on crisis". BBC Worldwide Limited. BBC Monitoring Middle East. 17 June 2011 – via Proquest.
- ^ "Visiting Turkish women rap "foreign conspiracy" against Syria". BBC Worldwide Limited. BBC Monitoring Middle East. 2 Nov 2011. 901349196 – via Proquest.
- ^ "Syrian women's group condemns Turkey camp rapes". BBC Worldwide Limited. BBC Monitoring Middle East. 23 Sep 2011. 893717277 – via Proquest.
- ^ Kivilcim, Zeynep (29 July 2016). "Legal Violence Against Syrian Female Refugees in Turkey". Feminist Legal Studies. 24 (2): 193–214. doi:10.1007/s10691-016-9323-y – via Springer Link.
- ^ Soguel, Dominique (26 October 2014). "In Turkey, Syrian women and girls increasingly vulnerable to exploitation" – via ProQuest.
- ^ Dowdy, Zachary R. (19 September 2016). "UN declaration: Nations must unite to help refugees, migrants". Newsday. Retrieved 20 November 2016.