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Sand quarries turn the Tigris deadly for children

13:11 09/07/2015 11

After three people died recently swimming in the Tigris River in Turkey's town of Cizre, many say the sand quarries along the river are to blame.

Women's unity stops military installation

09:19 09/07/2015 12

A group of women has successfully stopped construction on a new military installation in Dargeçit, Turkey.

Women in mourning and rebellion in Çökelek village

13:12 08/07/2015 6

In the village of Çökelek, where 15 agricultural workers (13 of them women) died after being packed into a truck onto the way to the fields yesterday, unsafe and cheap labor comes at the price of ...

Photographer plans exhibition of 'producing women'

12:21 08/07/2015 8

Photographer Dilan Bozyel is preparing to open an exhibition of photographs of women's productive work in all areas of life. The exhibition will be shown in the city of Kobanê, in Rojava, among ...

Women start sit-in against military installations

09:59 08/07/2015 5

Women in the largely Kurdish city of Dargeçit, Turkey have started a sit-in of the highway against the construction of military installations.

Law on violence against women reaches Turkey's Parliament

09:55 08/07/2015 1

A bill calling for stronger sentencing in cases of killings of women has reached Turkey's Parliament. Over one million signatories have supported the bill.

Domestic workers protest rapist judge

12:12 07/07/2015 1

Domestic workers picketed yesterday in Colombo, Sri Lanka to call for justice for the domestic worker raped by a Supreme Court judge recently.

Woman politician goes free after retrial

11:22 07/07/2015 3

Sebahat Tuncel, the woman politician sentenced to over eight years in prison, has been acquitted of all charges of belonging to a "terrorist organization."

Women protest sentence reduction for Farkhunda's killers

11:20 07/07/2015 2

Yesterday, women gathered outside the mosque where the young woman Farkhunda Malikzade was killed in Kabul to protest the reversal of death sentences for her killers

Call for justice in case of murdered Armenian woman

10:54 07/07/2015 1

The case of Maritsa Küçük, one of many elderly Armenian women killed in a single neighborhood in Istanbul, will resume tomorrow. The Human Rights Association has called for the case to be ...

Women's safety is in women's hands in Rojava

10:44 07/07/2015 4

Women serving in Rojava's Asayish peacekeeping service say that it is time for women to take charge of one another's safety.

Protests in Turkey after deaths of women workers

09:12 07/07/2015 6

Women across Turkey protested the deaths of 15 mainly female agricultural workers yesterday.

U.S. wins Women's World Cup

13:05 06/07/2015 6

The U.S. women's soccer team has beaten rival Japan in a 5-2 match and won the 2015 Women's World Cup in Vancouver.

People of Greece vote no on referendum

09:51 06/07/2015 1

The people of Greece have voted "no" on European creditors' proposals and on further austerity policies in a historic referendum.

Women in Istanbul march against femicide

09:18 06/07/2015 14

Women marched through the streets of Istanbul against femicide yesterday.

New law in Turkey could remove incentive for femicide

09:07 06/07/2015 2

In Turkey, member of Parliament Aylin Nazlıaka has re-submitted a draft law that would prevent the sentence reductions that courts issue to perpetrators of femicide.

Diyarbakır city walls named UNESCO World Heritage Site

09:04 06/07/2015 5

Diyarbakır's city walls and historic Hevsel Gardens area have been added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, along with Izmir's ancient city of Ephesus.

Famous scientist becomes Mauritius' first female president

12:20 04/07/2015 4

World-famous scientist Ameenah Gurib-Fakim has become the first president of Mauritius.

Women name chorus after femicide victim

10:21 04/07/2015 6

n Turkey's Aegean city of Izmir, a group of women has formed a women's chorus named after femicide victim Özgecan Aslan. The group says they will use their music to resist violence against women.

State's weapons continue killing women in Kurdish region

10:04 04/07/2015 5

In Turkey, the state has long issued weapons to village paramilitaries to fight the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party). Now, women's rights activists say, those same weapons are killing women.