U.S. support of Kurdish independence would create a strong stance on Syria, encourage womens' rights, democracy, and human justice in Syria and Iraq.
The Democratic Union Party (PYD) is a Syrian Kurdish political party established 2003 that is an ethical and equal opportunity political party promoting the culture of democracy and tolerance, aiming to resolve the Kurdish question in Syria democratically. The PYD believes in social equality, justice, freedom of belief, pluralism, and freedom of political parties.
In Rojava, Kurdish women are leading a revolutionary movement of social liberation from entrenched patriarchy. Kurdish women have organized themselves to ideologically and physically fight Islamist forces to protect civilians from fanatic religious rule.