On the move

The Syrian Women's Political Movement held its first press conference in Damascus on January 8, 2025. For the first time, the movement’s members spoke about their political project and vision for the future. Women from inside Syria and from countries of asylum were participating.

Even as of early 2025, women are facing new challenges in different parts of the world, especially the Middle East, a region whose crises never end—from Syria to Lebanon and Palestine, all the way to Yemen, Iraq, and Sudan.

Our WhatsApp group, MedFem News, woke up on Sunday, December 8 to the incredible news: “Bashar al-Assad has fled Syria! Damascus has been liberated!” The euphoria was contagious, but the hope expressed by the members of the group was not without worry.

She was 19 years old when she was thrown into one of Assad’s prisons. Now out of prison, she is 34 and has four children. She does not know who the father is. This is the story of one of the female prisoners who have just been released from Syria’s dungeons.

Week after week, Gisèle P. faces her rapists: the odious denial of most, the abject suspicion of the defense lawyers. Meanwhile, the number of people who again took to the streets on Saturday, October 19, to show their support, is growing.

Washington, D.C. – Formerly incarcerated women from across the United States, together with their families and allies, marched on Wednesday, April 24 in the nation’s capital a few weeks ahead of Mother’s Day in the US, with an urgent message for President Joe Biden: bring moms home for Mother’s Day, and stop building new federal prisons for women and girls. Invest the money in communities instead, so they can thrive and heal.

These women are demonstrating against patriarchy, going on feminist strikes, meeting, debating, expressing themselves through the arts, paying tribute to Palestinian women… In many Mediterranean countries, women are mobilizing for International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8, 2024. Below is an overview of the activities, marches, and mobilizations planned for this day. Go ahead and join them where you are! Above all, be many to join this profound movement that is women’s struggle for more rights and freedoms.

This year, French women are living through a historic moment: the freedom to resort to abortion is engraved in stone in the Constitution.

For the first time in France, an international conference bringing together defenders of laïcité took place on December 8 and 9, 2023 in the auditorium of Paris City Hall. A look back at these two intense days, which were attended by a hundred diligent participants, exiles from all over the world.

On Saturday October 28 in Rome, civil society mobilized to demand an immediate ceasefire and an end to the bombing of Gaza.