On March 5, International Women’s Day, Ms. Sinam Sherkany Mohamad, Co-Chief of the US Mission of the Syrian Democratic Council, participated in a panel discussion on Women and Global Security organized by the Gender Equality Initiative at George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs. Mohamad discussed the empowered status of women in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), the co-chair system, the struggle for gender equality in Syria, and women in peace and security. She gave examples of empowered, phenomenal women from the AANES, the YPJ, Heyva Sor, and the women’s movement over the past few decades in Syria.
The other speakers included powerful women in international affairs: Uzra Zeya, a seasoned peace negotiator who heads the Alliance for Peacebuilding; Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, seasoned diplomat at the State Department who also founded the organization Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation, and has been working on the US Feminist Foreign Policy; and Dr. Shirley Graham, director of the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs at the Elliot School, George Washington University.
