Aswatuna Project
“Our Voices/ Aswatuna: Syrian Women’s Voices for Justice”
The “Our Voices” project is led by Synergy for Justice, in partnership with The Amal Center for Advocacy and Recovery (AHAC), within a timeframe spanning from 2021 to 2025, focusing on supporting and empowering the voices of Syrian women in pathways of justice and rights.
Key Indicators
- Start Date: 1 October 2023
- End Date: 1 October 2025
- Donor: U.S. Department of State (DRL)
- Lead Organization: Synergy for Justice
- Implementing Partner: Amal’s Healing and Advocacy Center
Main Activities
1- Awareness Workshops
Organizing training sessions for family support groups of the disappeared at Amal Center, covering international law, human rights conventions, justice pathways, and gender-sensitive transitional justice.
2- International Advocacy Campaigns
Enabling support groups to design three advocacy campaigns highlighting violations against Syrian women, demanding the release of political detainees and prisoners of conscience, and disclosure of the fate of the missing.
3- Comprehensive Support Services
Providing legal, psychosocial, and referral services for women and girls at Amal Centers, addressing survivors’ challenges and strengthening their resilience and access to justice.
4- Community Dialogue Meetings
Organizing forums that bring together community leaders, religious figures, professional women, and survivors to discuss issues of peaceful conflict resolution, promote community forgiveness, and ensure accountability of perpetrators through justice mechanisms, while providing support to survivors within the framework of transitional justice.
5- Stakeholder Consultations
Engaging Syrian women lawyers, activists, and survivors from Amal Center and LDHR to integrate women’s voices into a dedicated section of Synergy’s Syrian Annex on documenting and investigating sexual violence. The consultations focus on key challenges such as confidentiality, stigma, barriers, and their impact on survivors.
