[1][2] The conference was arranged by the General Union of Syrian Women under the leadership of Nour Hamada, with participants from the Arab World and Eastern Asia.
Syria joined the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1929, and attended the 11th Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Berlin that same year.
Avra Theodoropoulous attended as the representative of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.
The topics discussed were "equality in divorce law, child marriage, labour, education, alcohol, social hygiene, Arabic literature, handicrafts, and national industry".
[4] The resolutions adopted was the abolition of polygamy and child marriage, to raise the age of marriage for girls to 16, to make education compulsory for women and to make a professional life with equal pay for equal work possible.