4th annual meeting of Kobanê Women's Council stresses need to further strengthening role of women

At the 4th annual meeting of the Kobanê Women's Council, it was underlined that the role of women in the communes should be further strengthened.

The 4th annual meeting of the Kobanê Women's Council took place on Wednesday. In the evaluations made at the meeting, it was emphasized that the role of women in the communes should be strengthened.

Leyla Ehmed, co-chair of the Kobanê Canton Council, made the opening speech and read the political activity report of the assembly. The report included figures on crimes against women as well as last year's work of the Council, which carried out a total of 532 meetings with women.

Several speakers at the meeting said that importance must be given to women's education and developing projects to support women economically.

In the proposals made for the next year, topics such as increasing the number of women's communes and women taking a more active role in the existing communes were put forward.