The Centre for Kurdish Progress will be holding a public forum with the Delegation to Northern Syria on 1 May 2018.
The speakers are Labour Peer Lord Maurice Glasman, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Labour MP for Brighton, Kemptown and Simon Dubbins, Director of International & Research at Unite the Union. More speakers TBC.
This event is kindly hosted by Lord Glasman.
The event will take place between 6:30-8PM on Tuesday, 1st May 2018 in Committee Room 1, House of Commons.
Please note that security checks are required to enter House of Commons. We kindly ask you to arrive at 6:15PM, allowing the event to start and end promptly on time.
The delegation to Rojava, Northern Syria in the first week of April 2018 was organised by the Centre for Kurdish Progress and Unite the Union. It was made of Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP, Lord Glasman, Simon Dubbins, Director of International & Research at Unite and Ryan Fletcher from Unite. The delegation visited Kobani, Qamishli and met with local, council and parliamentary leaders from the Federation of Northern Syria as well as soldiers from the YPJ and bereaved family members from Kobani. They also met with Shia Parliamentarians in Baghdad.
The delegation witnessed the building of a broad-based democracy in Northern Syria, the leadership participation of women in its structures and the energy and hope of building a constructive alternative to ethnic, religious and nationalist models. They also observed the systematic attach on this democratic innovation from the Turkish state and witnessed the refugee exodus from Afrin.