Charlotte Alfred and Farah Mohamed https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/charlotte-alfred-farah-mohamed/rss en Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Charlotte Alfred & Farah Mohamed https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2016/03/23/long-sidelined-women-raise-voices-in-geneva https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2016/03/23/long-sidelined-women-raise-voices-in-geneva “Women are bearing the brunt of the war and keeping the country together,” according to Randa Slim, director of the Middle East Institute’s Initiative for Track II Dialogues. But after years of neglect at the international diplomatic level, Syrian women are finally being heard at the negotiating table in Geneva.