Outputs of the fifteenth dialogue session in Tirbespiyê

Ezdina Organization held its fifteenth dialogue session at the Yazidi House in the city of Tirbespiyê, within the project “A Constitution That Protects Us”, on 10.06.2021, where the session started at 11:30 and ended at 15:00.


Facilitator:
The session was moderated by Dr. Abeer Hassaf


Participants:
11 women and men from representatives of media institutions, activists in the field of civil society participated according to the following ratios:
4 Female - 7 Male

• Avin Jamil - Civic activist
• Lava Sharo - Yezidi activist
• Hassan Kana'o - Teacher
• Renas Ramo - Correspondent of Hawar Agency
• Orama Hanna - Field researcher
• Jacob Asmar - University student
• Suleiman Mano - Correspondent of the Aso News Network
• Suleiman Haji - Kurdish language teacher
• Lava Sa'adoun - Member of the Jiyan Association
• Farhan Suleiman - Civil activist
• Yasser Khalaf - Civil activist

The activist and international media award-winning, Barzan Isso, also participated in the dialogue session as an honor guest via the "Zoom".

National background of the participants:
Arabs: 2 - Syriacs: 2 - Kurds: 7

Religious background of the participants:
Yazidis: 2 - Christians: 2 - Muslims: 7

Main topics of the session:

• Geneva conferences on solving the Syrian crisis.
• The importance of the political process in Geneva.
• Security Council Resolution 2254.
• The Syrian Constitutional Committee in Geneva.
• The role of the constitution in meeting the demands of youth, and activists.

The facilitator began her talk about the nine Geneva conferences and their results in detail, then the door was opened for discussion, consultations and questions by the participants and participants, and all questions were answered by the facilitator of the session.

Then the journalist Barzan Isso participated via the "Zoom", and spoke about the experience of several countries during the preparation of their constitutions, including Spain and the position of Catalonia during its marginalization and the acquisition of its rights.

Isso touched on the importance of formulating and controlling the economy and its impact on the formulation of constitutions and the preparation of their provisions, then he opened the door for discussion.

In the second axis, the member of the Constitutional Committee, Dr. Dorsen Oskan, via the “Zoom”, joined the session to talk about the establishment and composition of the Constitutional Committee and the drawbacks of representing the Committee in addition to talking about the main reasons for the failure of the Constitutional Committee in its work so far


Session results:
At the conclusion of the dialogue session, the attendees agreed on a set of recommendations and proposals to be submitted to the Syrian Constitutional Committee, including:

• Separation of powers and independence of the judiciary.
• Youth participation in political decision-making.
• Determining a percentage of youth representation in parliament and local councils.
• Gender equality in politics and economy
• Freedom of the press and media and access to information for all.
• Freedom of expression and opinion.
• Allocating a Ministry for Youth.
• Protection of female journalists.
• The right to establish organizations concerned with youth affairs.
• The constitution guarantees the rights of all components.
• Elimination of all forms of discrimination and hate speech in all its forms.
• Freedom to practice religious rites in all its forms for every religious component.
• The right to learn the mother tongue for all components.
• Preserving and protecting freedoms and human rights.
• Supporting the areas of the Autonomous Administration developmentally and economically.
• Permanent support for scientific research.