Baytna’s Blog


Before the popular, peaceful revolution began in 2011, Syria was an unknown entity for those unfamiliar with the region or with the realities of living under an authoritarian regime.

Since then, as Syrians began to spread around the world, fleeing the regime’s violence, many facets of Syrian life and social customs became better known, and civil society activities started bringing varied aspects of this wonderful country’s people to light.

Baytna’s Blog will bring some of their stories to you.

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Syrian Women are Creating Their Own Opportunities

The Women's Support and Empowerment Unit, one of the organizations Baytna supports and funds in Syria, is a non-profit civil society organization that launched in 2018 with a conference attended by more than 150 women from Aleppo's northern and eastern countryside. The Unit now has over 500 members from all around the countryside of Aleppo, from Afrin to Jarablus.

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Networks and Alliances for Aleppo’s Civil Society

Wasl Network is a group of local civil society organizations in the northern and eastern countryside of Aleppo, working to support Syrian civil society to play a more influential role in advocating the issues of its communities, and choosing its representatives to implement programs that serve these issues.

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Peace in Syria: Possibility or Fantasy?

On the sidelines of the 6th Brussels Conference on Supporting the future of Syria and the region, Baytna and the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) co-organized a side event on May 6, 2022, bringing together leading members of Syrian civil society to explore their vision on required elements for sustainable peace in Syria.

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Planting a New Hope for Syria

Through their work with young men and women in the community, the female leaders of the "Basmat Janudiyat" organization seek to implement pioneering projects in the region that have not been done before, to maintain the renewal of the civil work and not to implement projects executed by other organizations, in order to avoid wasting resources and to participate in supporting the area with what it really needs.

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Messages of Peace, Advocacy, and Mobilization from Syria

The Women for Peace organization conducts periodical workshops with the young men and women of their city to convey powerful advocacy messages to their participants, spreading the culture of mobilization advocacy and empowering a group of women and youth to be community capital.

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World Refugee Day

On World Refugee Day, Syrians the world over are looking for a way to go home. For that to happen, they need the international community’s support, so that they can rebuild their country.

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