Syria region defies ISIS, issues women’s rights decree

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http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/11/09/Self-ruling-region-in-Syria-issues-women-s-rights-decree-.html
Syria region defies ISIS, issues women’s rights decree
Reuters, Beirut
Sunday, 9 November 2014

Officials in a predominantly Kurdish province of northeastern Syria have issued a women’s rights decree, monitors said on Sunday, in an apparent rebuke to the hardline views of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgents who have advanced in the region.

ISIS, which has declared a “caliphate” across large areas of Syria and Iraq it has captured, has issued rules on how women should dress and has curb their movement outside the home, basing this on its radical interpretation of sharia (Islamic law), according to residents living in territory it holds...

...The decree called for “equality between men and women in all spheres of public and private life,” and said women had the right to run for office and an equal right to work, pay and inheritance. It was not immediately clear whether the decree was legally binding or how it would be implemented.

In its English-language magazine last month, ISIS provided what it called religious justification for the enslavement of women and children as spoils of war.... MORE at link posted above.