WORLD WOMEN’S CONFERENCE
OF GRASSROOTS WOMEN
MIDDLE EAST COORDINATION
25.01.2026
We address you today on behalf of the women of northeast Syria, from the heart of the tragedy that is striking that region, to declare to the whole world that what the Kurdish women and people are experiencing in northern and eastern Syria, from the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh in Aleppo to Kobani and all parts of the Autonomous Administration, is not merely a military escalation, but a comprehensive and dirty war of extermination led by the “transitional government”….
and its factions beholden to capitalist forces, aimed primarily at crushing the will of women who have proven to the world that freedom is possible. Today, we are faced with horrific documentation that makes our blood run cold and amounts to war crimes that cannot be ignored, where the bodies of female fighters and civilians are mutilated with extreme sadism, from slitting throats and gouging out eyes, and throwing women from upper floors, to the fascist symbolic act of “cutting the braids of female fighters” in a desperate attempt to humiliate women’s dignity and symbolize their struggle, which reflects the dark mentality of these factions that are essentially no different from the terrorist ideology of ISIS.
The city of Kobani, which was and remains an epic of global resistance against ISIS, is today suffering from a suffocating siege and brutal military attacks targeting all the people and infrastructure. Electricity, water, and the internet have been cut off, and bread has been blocked, in a systematic starvation policy aimed at breaking its historic resilience. This aggression, which aims to uproot the population and bring about forced demographic change, is accompanied by the deliberate targeting of prisons and camps housing ISIS terrorists (as happened in Al-Shaddadi and Raqqa) to facilitate their escape and spread terrorism once again as a tool for political blackmail. This will have catastrophic repercussions that go beyond geographical borders. Locally, this security breakdown threatens to spread chaos, shed innocent blood, and destroy civil peace. Regionally, it will destabilize neighboring countries and turn the region into an uncontrollable hotbed of conflict. Globally, the flight of these terrorists will lead to the re-export of cross-border death cells, undermining international security and peace with consequences that the international community cannot bear again.
We at the International Women’s Conference hold international and women’s movements legally and morally responsible, demanding immediate intervention to enforce a ceasefire and lift the unjust siege on Kobani and Al-Hasakah, and to pressure the “transitional government” to move towards political negotiations and a comprehensive peaceful solution that guarantees the rights of all components. We also stress the need for human rights committees and impartial media to document these facts and violations on the ground and hold the perpetrators accountable as war criminals.
In conclusion, we affirm our cross-border women’s solidarity, for the women’s revolution in Rojava is the revolution of every woman who seeks dignity and freedom. We call on all women’s organizations, unions, and movements around the world to stand in solidarity, raise their voices in protest, and put pressure on
international capitalist and fascist policies to stop this genocide. Protecting the gains of the women’s revolution in Rojava/Syria is protecting the future of women. The revolution that sacrificed 15,000 souls in the fight against the most dangerous terrorist organization (ISIS) will not allow these fascist forces to extinguish the light of our democracy or break the chains of our resistance. Our voice today is the voice of truth, and our steadfastness is the decisive response to all forms of oppression and siege.
Long live the resistance of free women!
Glory to the martyrs and shame on the murderers!