PETER HITCHENS: We set Syria ablaze... Now we're hurling in explosives

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3. Man , I don't think we should be involved at all in this mess....

Women’s and Girls’ Rights

Syria’s constitution guarantees gender equality, and many women are active in public life. However personal status laws and the penal code contain provisions that discriminate against women and girls, particularly in marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance. While the penal code no longer fully exonerates perpetrators of so-called honor crimes, it still gives judges options for reduced sentences if a crime was committed with “honorable” intent. The nationality law of 1969 prevents Syrian women married to foreign spouses the right to pass on their citizenship to their children or spouses.




They are still not equal to men in many respects even though they can hold public office.
It wasn't like the Saudis treat women but women should have exactly the rights all men have.


Human rights developments in Syria
For over two decades Amnesty International has documented and campaigned on a range of serious human rights violations in Syria, including the arbitrary detention of political opponents, the long-term detention of prisoners of conscience, torture and ill-treatment, and political killings