YRJ spokesperson calls for adopting unified vision about women's issues

In the eighties of the twentieth century, women's media witnessed a qualitative leap after it was under the sway of the masculine mentality and a special war pursued by tyrannical regimes that sought continuously to enslave women, distance them from their true essence, and confiscate their identity.

The 22nd of April of each year is the Kurdish Press Day. On this occasion, the spokeswoman for the Women's Media Union, Arin Sweid, blessed the advent of this day for all media martyrs who sacrificed their lives in order to reveal the truth, and for all media professionals on the fighting fronts seeking to show the policies of genocide against the people.

She emphasized that women's media has began since the eighties with the Kurdistan Liberation Movement, which was led by the fighter Sakina Cansiz and followed the same path as the fighter Gurbetli Arsuz. Arhan.

"Women's media witnessed a great development by keeping pace with the struggle of women within the Kurdistan Liberation Movement," she added.

Sweid explained that after the outbreak of the July 19, 2012 revolution in NE Syria, the media space witnessed a remarkable inclusion of women, as female media professionals organized themselves within media institutions in the region, such as working for Sawt al-Hayat magazine at the time, or in news agencies such as the Women’s News Agency (JIN NEWS). and satellite (JIN TV).

Sweid indicated that after the remarkable participation of female media professionals, there was a need to establish vision for them, with the aim of discussing the language of public media in dealing with women's issues.

Announcing the Establishment of (YRJ)

The efforts of female media professionals in Rojava culminated in the holding of the first conference in 2014, as it can be considered a foundational conference in building a basic base for women's media, followed by the second conference in 2016, and the third on June 28, 2020.

After the third conference was held, the Women's Media Union (YRJ) was officially announced, and attached to a council consisting of 31 media professionals and representatives of media outlets operating in NE Syria.

Regarding the goals of establishing the union, its spokeswoman stated that the authoritarian forces, in order to impose their authority on societies, follow methods and methods of private warfare, committing massacres and genocide against peoples and societies, until silence prevailed among social circles, especially among women, and said: "In order to break this Silence, women's media in NE Syria played an important role in this context, and sought to be a voice for women's cries, discussing women's problems within society, and discussing the media's language about women's issues.

Sweid mentioned examples of the media’s language in dealing with some issues related to women, by referring to the crimes recently committed against women in Egypt and Tunisia, and she noted that the women’s media in NE Syria dealt with these crimes by analyzing the sociology of society in order to reach the truth of matters and find suitable solutions for it.

Arin Sweid drew attention to the authoritarian forces' exploitation of women through political Islam and by involving them in their authority, and said: "According to these two methods, authoritarian forces attacked women."

She followed that by saying: "These issues were discussed by the Women's Media Union, which confirmed that increasing the number of women in departments and institutions is not enough, unless the masculine mentality that has permeated through writings and phrases on television and news sites changes, and the style and speech of the broadcaster is determined and likened to men." Noting that "all these terms and restrictions are in order to keep women under the cloak of men."

Sweid mentioned some of the union's work plans, such as reaching media women in all countries, especially in Syria and the Middle East, and discussing the problems they suffer from, and the attacks that affect the issue of their liberation, as well as the discussion about the responsibilities that fall on the shoulders of The Women's Media Union in defining the women's revolution and the dangers faced by countries witnessing uprisings. Sweid stressed the need for all media women to cooperate, not only in NE Syria, but also in the Middle East, in order to adopt a unified language in confronting the policies that are practiced against women, and to come up with a unified vision that would enhance the role of women's media in dealing with all issues, saying: "It is possible to discuss the confederation of women in the Middle East and the role of the media in achieving it.

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