Syria’s Social Affairs and Labour Minister Hind Kabawat has told The National that the transitional government has “big dreams” but few resources with which to realise them, limiting its work amid high expectations from both inside and outside the country.
A year after the fall of the regime of Bashar Al Assad, Ms Kabawat reflected in an interview with The National on the achievements and constraints faced by the transitional cabinet formed in March, a 23-member body in which she is the only woman and the only Christian.
She said the wide array of Western sanctions imposed on Syria has significantly “slowed” the work of her ministry, a vital portfolio in the country’s delicate transition period. It oversees social protection for the most vulnerable, including victims of Syria’s ruinous 14-year civil war, the return of millions of refugees, social cohesion, and labour and employment regulation.
Her task is daunting.
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