Despite growing threats and limited representation, GCHR highlights how Syrian women human rights defenders continue pushing for greater inclusion and gender-sensitive justice amid a fragile political ...

"Trust must exist first and foremost," Syrian Democratic Council representative to the U.S. Sinam Mohamad told Newsweek.

Syrian authorities have issued new directives to the public urging women to wear modest swimwear on public beaches, with a particular recommendation for “burkinis". The new regulation, published ...

Syria issued a conservative new dress code Tuesday requiring women to wear burkinis or full-body swimwear on all public beaches, the latest cultural shift since Islamist-led rebels toppled ...

Syria's Islamist-led interim government has decreed that women must wear burkinis - a swimsuit that covers the body except for the face, hands and feet - or other "decent" clothes at public ...

Mobile health and nutrition teams deliver critical services in Rural Damascus after a surge in fighting triggers a wave of ...

Senior figures in the new government described the declaration as guaranteeing women’s political and economic rights. Yet only one of Syria’s 23 ministers is a woman: Hind Kabawat, appointed ...

The top U.N. envoy for Syria is warning that its transition remains “on a knife-edge” and violence could resume at any moment ...

From the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo, women and girls’ rights have suffered serious setbacks. But despite the challenges, there also have been improvements and victories ...

Syria’s state-run news agency says the country’s foreign minister has held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris ...

Syria’s new government has adopted a temporary constitution that concentrates much power in the hands of the interim president and retains Islamic law as the foundation of the legal system.

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Some ...