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Idlib – 28 April, 2025
1. Hind Kabawat, Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor, meeting kids at a refugee camp
2. Kabawat meeting women at the camp
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Damascus – 30 May 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hind Kabawat, Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor:
“We used to talk, we used to plan, but nothing was happening because the sanctions were stopping us or restricting us from doing our work, today after the lifting of sanctions, we’ve now gone from the planning phase to the implementation phase.”
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Idlib – 28 April 2025
4. Various of Kabawat speaking during her visit of a refugee camp and an orphanage
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Damascus – 30 May 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Hind Kabawat, Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor:
“(We are going) step by step. We are not saying that anything is easy – we have many challenges and difficulties, but we can’t be pessimistic. We need to be optimistic, because the sanctions have been lifted, and we gained our freedom.”
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Idlib – 28 April 2025
6. Kabawat going inside a tent
7. Kabawat meeting women inside the tent
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Damascus – 12 May, 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Hind Kabawat, Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor:
“Our vision is that we don’t want either food baskets or tents after five years. And of course we’re working to get there without marginalization or exclusion, this is part of what we’re working on.”
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Idlib, Syria – 28 April 2025
9. Kabawat coming out of car, meeting a man on crutches
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Damascus – 12 May, 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hind Kabawat, Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor:
“Today our people need economic stability. You can see the salaries, our salaries are negligible. How can I ask people to work day and night and then say I want to fight corruption? How can I fight corruption if the monthly salary is $40 and that is not enough to buy food for 10 days?”
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Idlib – 28 April, 2025
11. Minister’s car and security cars driving
12. Kabawat meeting woman and then walking
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Damascus – 12 May, 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hind Kabawat, Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor:
“Today everywhere I travel – I got back from Washington – the first and last question is, ‘What is the situation of the minorities?’ I can understand the worries of the west about the minorities, but they should also be worried about Syrian men and women as a whole.”
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Idlib – 28 April,2025
14. Various of Kabawat entering a room and shaking hands with young kids and girls
15. Kabawat speaking to girls
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Damascus – 12 May 2025
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hind Kabawat, Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor:
“Now there is a greater opportunity for women, than under Assad and that, today there is no committee being formed that does not have women in it, we used to say it’s 30% minimum (representation), now we can say it’s almost 50%. Today woman are present, and there are no restrictions as to what they can do.”
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Idlib – 28 April 2025
17. Kabawat sitting next to women
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Damascus – 12 May 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic: Hind Kabawat, Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor:
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Idlib – 28 April 2025
19. Kabawat leaving and getting in her car
STORYLINE:
Her portfolio will be one of the most important as the country begins rebuilding after nearly 14 years of civil war.
“We are going step by step,” she said.
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