SEEN’s Political Affairs and Advocacy Department is grounded in an understanding of politics as an interconnected field of struggle over power, resources, rights, and meaning—where issues of gender, sexuality, class, labor, the environment, and freedom of expression intersect with systems of governance, political economy, and structural violence.

The department works to analyze and intervene in political spaces and public discourse across Southwest Asia, including Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran, with a focus on how public policies, legislation, and political narratives shape the lives of marginalized groups and communities affected by exclusion, criminalization, and inequality.

The department approaches gender and sexual justice, women’s rights, reproductive justice, labor rights, freedom of the press and expression, and climate justice as interconnected struggles that collectively shape the conditions of life, dignity, and freedom in our societies.

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Political Vision

We work toward building a more just and accountable political space, in which policies and public discourse confront forms of structural oppression, strengthen rights and freedoms, reduce class, social, and gender-based inequalities, and restore human dignity as a collective and indivisible right.