WORLD WORLDWIDE ARGENTINA News Journal Update - (en) Argentina, ICL-CIT: Organizacion-Obrera #97 - INTERSECTIONALITIES (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The March/April issue of Organización Obrera dealt with the situation of

cooperativism in northeastern Syria. Working, for women in Syria, means, many
times, a risk of life.
Syrian journalists, for example, see serious difficulties in their daily work.
According to Reporters Without Borders, there is no reliable data on violence
against female journalists in Syria, but they do confirm that there are many
women at risk in the city of Idlib. Al - Abadi is a journalist who published in
2018 Bodies without soul (bodies without soul) where she narrates stories of
women subjected to psychological and physical violence, kidnapping and rape by
soldiers of the Islamic State, as well as forced marriages. The work construct is
far from what we understand in this territory, and when faced with issues as
primary as physical-emotional integrity, it is almost impossible to think/imagine.

The effect of the earthquakes in the region has only weakened the condition of
women and children. While the ILO announced the donation of 3.6 million dollars
(March 20, 2023), many of us wondered if promoting employment was enough to
reduce, among other issues, a gender wage gap of 56.8%, one of the highest in the
world. world level. Not having access to work leaves women captive to all kinds
of exploitation, violence and precariousness (because thinking about autonomy is
a chimera). If we add to this situation the misogyny of the Islamic State and the
forced displacements to refugee camps, we see the way in which intersectionality
operates to the detriment of an improvement in existence. It is important to
consider that Syria has been in a "civil" war for more than 10 years and, with
the phenomenon of earthquakes, 170,000 workers were left unemployed, affecting
154,000 homes (more than 725,000 people). Some 35,000 micro, small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have also been affected. The lack of employment
due to the quake has caused total losses of labor income equivalent to at least
5.7 million dollars per month. "It is estimated that the five most affected
Syrian districts (or governorates) - Aleppo, Hama, Idlib, Lattakia and Tartous -
lived 42.4% of the country's total population. This included around 7.1 million
people of working age (16 years and over), of whom 2.7 million were employed
(formal and informal). 22.8% were women". (ILO).

Displaced families are often headed by women, who in cold times must burn plastic
to keep warm (World Vision report 'Out in the Cold', 2022). Displacement
generates greater vulnerability due, mainly, to three reasons:

Gender stereotypes. That officiate as a barrier to access work. "Access to income
poses several specific problems for women in displacement camps. The main one is
that cultural and gender norms increase the stigma around women's economic
activity. Displaced women who are heads of households lead a double life, in
which they must fulfill both domestic tasks and generate income outside the home,
but this is made very difficult since the camps for displaced persons and the
closed communities in which they live they offer limited markets for their paid
work and for the services they can provide" (Eleanor Monbiot, World Vision 'Out
in the Cold', 2022).
Demand for work for women is unpaid. Displaced households have a higher total
dependency rate due to the need to care for children and the elderly, as well as
the condition of being the sole breadwinner. Time and mobility limitations
condition precarious work (less hours, less wages, informal jobs).
The impossibility of keeping dependents well fed and warm during the winter and
using unsafe methods (such as burning plastic) to keep warm causes women not only
to have biological but also psycho-emotional conditions; fact that reduces the
possibilities of access to work.
Living in a region of permanent armed conflict exposes women, for example, to
kidnapping for the purpose of labor exploitation. Amnesty International has
documented the modality that armed groups have in the region: kidnapping of women
for their subsequent labor exploitation in the kitchens of the illegal detention
centers that operate in Idlib and Aleppo. Corporal punishments such as stoning
and flogging (as opposed to spurious implications of infidelity) are frequent
currency in women's day.

It is the first of May, the day that workers put down their tools to shout with
one voice around the world. Let's shout then, loud, as loud as we can for all the
compañeras for whom the mere thought of "working" as we consider it in the pampas
literally costs them their lives.

https://organizacion-obrera.fora.com.ar/2023/05/01/interseccionalidades/
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