Date: February 2022
Issues of housing and property rights in Syria are complicated for women, as research has shown, due to a combination of obstructing factors, as well as the armed conflict which has forced half the population -men and women- to leave their homes, sometimes without identification papers and title deeds.
The combination of discriminatory laws and traditions, together with an undemocratic political reality, has resulted in lack of an appropriate work environment for NGOs inside Syria and across different geographies.
The biggest obstacle is that dominating forces show no political will to solve this crucial human rights issue.
Depriving women of their property and housing rights is both a symptom and a cause of their low levels of economic empowerment.
The armed conflict also effects these issues, linking them to issues of missing persons, arrest and security harassment targeting the opposition, whatever the form of this opposition is, and attempts by dominant forces to achieve demographic change.
These issues are also connected to the issue of justice for all, the gendering of mechanisms for justice and peace-making and peace-building.
The research published by The Day After (TDA) on February 2022, deals with the issue of property rights from a gender perspective, through five sections that varied between studying the legislative and legal framework for property and housing rights in international law and in Syrian legislation, and shedding light on other causes affecting property and housing rights, in addition to interventions Government and civil rights to ensure women’s rights to property and housing nationally, regionally and globally.
