Sosin Xanê /JINHA

RIMÊLAN - Cîhan Mihemed of the Women’s House in the Rojava town of Rimêlan say that the institution aims to solve the problems of all local women.

The Women’s House in the town, located in Cizîrê Canton, has been operating for the last one and a half years to support women in matters of violence, economic support, cultural life, and more. In multicultural Rojava, the Women’s House serves not just Kurdish women, but Arab and Assyrian women in the town.

“Every one of us is responsible for removing the problems and pains that women experience,” says Cîhan Mihemed, the director of the Women’s House.

Cîhan explains that because women are the “producers of humanity” in the natural state of society, the Rojava revolution takes women as the basic leaders of the revolution. The Women’s House here is organized into three committees: one in charge of archiving women’s cases, one in charge of economic support and one in charge of securing agreement in cases.

Fatime Ehmed serves on the committee that works on consensus. “We listen to both sides. This makes it easier to find a solution,” she says.

Diya Heleb (who like many women in the region is called by the name of her child, Heleb) is one of the local women who have applied to the Women’s House.

“After my daughter got married, her husband threw her out and went and married someone else. So we applied to the Women’s House and shared our problem with them,” she said. She said the Women’s House ended the mistreatment of her daughter, who had been experiencing psychological problems after the event.

“After we applied to the Women’s House, they couldn’t stand up to us and they couldn’t keep doing wrong by us,” said Diya Heleb.

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