News Center – this year, International Workers’ Day arrive amid a highly complex regional reality, where economic crises intersect with prolonged wars, leaving direct impacts on the working class in the Middle East and North Africa, especially women.

On the occasion of International Workers’Day, which falls on May 1, the Democratic Women’s Coalition in the Middle East and North Africa”NADA” issued a statement addressing the rapid deterioration in the conditions of the working class in the region, particularly women, amid prolonged wars and economic policies described as increasing the fragility of working groups and deepening the social gap.

The statement, issued today, Thursday, April 30, indicated that May Day – which is supposed to be an occasion to celebrate the achievements of the working class – comes this year under an extremely harsh reality. “We stand today before a reality that shows the escalating suffering of the working class, at the heart of which are women, especially in the informal sector, under the weignt of destructive wars, greedy capitalist policies, and systems that see in humans nothing but a number to be drained in the equations of profit and exploitation.”

According to the statement, the working class in Gaza, Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Libya, and other conflict zones bears the heaviest burden of wars that have not only destroyed infrastructure and homes but have also targeted souces of livelihood, closed factories, and pushed thousands of women to bear the responsibility of supporting their families in the absence of any social protection.

The statement noted that women workers in these regions face harsh living conditions, ranging from forced unemployment, lack of job security, and absence of basic services, which places women in direct confrontation with poverty and its social consequences.

Even in countries not experiencing open wars, the statement affirms that women workers suffer from low wages and lack of basic rights, including maternity leave, health insurance, and protection from arbitrary dismissal, in addition to the spread of unsafe work environments in agriculture, industry, and services, where cases of exploitation and harassment are increasing, while women bear a double burden between paid work and unpaid domestic work.