{"id":93732,"date":"2021-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/11382\/"},"modified":"2021-03-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T21:00:00","slug":"11382","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/11382","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Refugee Women in Syria Seek Livelihoods to Feed Starved Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scores of Palestinian refugee women sheltered in Syria have served as their families’ sole breadwinners.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Entering its 11<\/span>th<\/span><\/span> year, the warfare has forced women to break down gender locks and force their way into the market place to ensure their children can receive food and stay safe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several women who lost their husbands in the conflict or whose sons have been forcibly disappeared in the country have found no other way than to work up a sweat in order to survive in the war-torn country.<\/span><\/p>\n

AGPS has documented the secret detention of 110 Palestinian women and girls in Syria’s government prisons.<\/span><\/p>\n

AGPS also documented the death of over 30 Palestinian women and girls under torture in Syria’s state-run penal complexes.<\/span><\/p>\n

AGPS believes the numbers to be far higher as scores of casualties have gone undocumented after the Syrian authorities kept their names secret. Several families have also refused to reveal their relatives’ names over retaliation concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to affidavits by ex-detainees, Palestinian women and girls have been subjected to harsh psycho-physical torture tactics in Syrian penitentiaries, including electric shocks, heavy beating using iron sticks, and sexual abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such practices represent flagrant violations of the Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict of 1974, Article 5, which criminalizes all forms of torture and mistreatment against women and children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inherently a taboo misdemeanor in the MENA region, violence against women, be it sexual, physical, or verbal, has remained under-reported among the Palestinian refugee community in Syria, with reasons wavering between fear of retaliation, embarrassment, fear of punishment for those below the age of criminal responsibility, and distrust in law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scores of Palestinian refugee women sheltered in Syria have served as their families’ sole breadwinners.\u00c2\u00a0 Entering its 11th year, the warfare has forced women to break down gender locks and force their way into the market place to ensure their children can receive food and stay safe. Several women who lost their husbands in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-93732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}