Syrian delegation to Muslim Women Parliamentarian Conference Demanded Halting War on Syria, Stop Supporting Terrorists
TEHRAN,(ST) _ With Syria ‘s participation, the third session of the Muslim Women Parliamentarians conference was convened today in Tehran, within preparations for the 9th session of the Union ‘s parliaments conference of the Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation OIC.
Syrian parliamentarians Shukria Mahameed and Mohammed Yousuf spoke about the reality of Syrian women and challenges they are facing at the moment to undermine the gains she made over the past decades and the positions she acquired at the state and the community levels.
They noted Syria ‘s efforts to strengthen the role of women in all fields and at various levels and that Syrian women enjoy the right to vote and stand for parliament and local governing councils, noting that the proportion of Syrian women representation in the Parliament increased from 4 women in the first legislative term to 30 in legislative elections held in 2012, by an increase of 12 percent, a record in the Arab and Muslim world.
They also noted Syrian women prominent roles in all walks of the country ‘s social, production, legislative, economic, educational and diplomatic fields, on equal footing with men.
They called for the formation of women delegations representing OIC Member States to hold visits to countries that have an impact on terrorism sponsor countries against Syria, urging them to stop funding, eliminating weapon supplies to terrorists, stop hostile media campaigns against the Syrian state and condemnation of the terrorist acts that target civilians, refrain from using them as human shields, work to stop vandalism of the infrastructure and to from one Islamic women Parliamentary body to stand against suspicious calls to sow sectarianism and fragmentation of Syrian society and stop trading the suffering of the Syrian people and take all necessary measures to ease their suffering resulting from the unjust terrorist war imposed on them.
They also demanded condemnation of acts of repression practiced by the Zionist entity against the Syrian women in the occupied Syrian Golan as a punishment for their support to the motherland Syria and for the Palestinian women in the occupied territories because of their refusal to give up their usurped rights and to take all the necessary measures for the release of all Syrian and Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.
T. Fateh