{"id":1809,"date":"2020-04-20T21:56:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.kongra-star.org\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2022-12-18T19:39:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T19:39:53","slug":"women-must-defend-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/2020\/04\/20\/women-must-defend-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Mala Jin: \u201cWomen must defend women!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-5070\" class=\"post-5070 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-publications\">\n<div class=\"text-holder\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p><strong>We interviewed Naima Mehmud, co-chair of the Mala Jin (Women\u2019s House) in the canton of Heseke. We talked with her about the work of Mala Jin and how it is influenced by the current Turkish state\u2019s invasion and war and the recent Covid-19 pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s House (Mala Jin), is one of the people\u2019 s institutions that were built from 2011 with the outbreak of the revolution. They are part of the Women\u2019s Movement, organised under the umbrella of Kongra Star, and are established throughout the region of North and East Syria, as one of the pillars of the community-based institutions that represent the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Women Must Defend Women!&quot; - Women&#039;s House in Heseke\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3fHAJBGLqxs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their role is to support women in solving the problems that affect them, and to take part through the Consensus Committees in the management of gender-based conflicts. In the project of Mala Jin we see two of the principles of the Revolution crystallized: ending the oppression of women and understanding, addressing and resolving conflicts within the community. The problems women face include husbands who have taken second wives, forced marriages, issues of inheritance, or male violence. Because despite the legislative changes that have been taken (such as banning polygamy or raising the legal age of marriage to 18), these continue to occur and it is a long-term educational effort to eradicate them completely.<\/p>\n<p>As a house of justice, Mala Jin takes on a mediating role, holding talks with the affected parts when possible \u2013 a couple, a family, two or three families or tribes \u2013 and seeking a solution together. Even so, in serious cases of male violence or conflicts that are not settled, they are working together with Asayi\u015f (police force) and the court justice system, taking punitive measures if necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<nav class=\"navigation post-navigation\" role=\"navigation\">\n<h2 class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/h2>\n<div class=\"nav-links\">\n<div class=\"nav-previous nav-holder\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We interviewed Naima Mehmud, co-chair of the Mala Jin (Women\u2019s House) in the canton of Heseke. We talked with her about the work of Mala Jin and how it is influenced by the current Turkish state\u2019s invasion and war and the recent Covid-19 pandemic. The Women\u2019s House (Mala Jin), is one of the people\u2019 s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,61],"tags":[80,37,79,38,68],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rights-and-justice","category-video","tag-heseke","tag-kurdistan","tag-mala-jin","tag-rojava","tag-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12681,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/12681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongra-star.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}