Egyptian human rights lawyer Mahinour sentenced to prison time
11:40 06/06/2015Egyptian human rights lawyer Mahinour Al-Masry has been sentenced to prison time for "attacking a police station" when she went to visit an arrested colleague in Alexandria in 2013.
Malala's attackers to go free
11:04 06/06/2015Eight of the ten men who attempted to assassinate Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan have been acquitted for the attack.
Woman hospitalizes man who harassed her
10:56 06/06/2015In the Black Sea city of Zonguldak, Turkey, an amateur boxer defended herself from a harasser and sent her assailant to the hospital.
Kirkuk women public employees struggle to solve city problems
10:53 06/06/2015In the city of Kirkuk in the Federal Kurdistan Region, women working for the city government have organized as the Women's and Children's Committee to solve women's issues in the city. However, they ...
Funerals ongoing for victims of Diyarbakır bombing
10:29 06/06/2015Şehmuz Kaçan, one of the people killed in the bombing on a Diyarbakır Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) rally, has been buried in his native village. Today, bombing victims Ramazan Yıldız and ...
Police open fire on HDP vehicle in wake of Diyarbakır bombing
09:45 06/06/2015Turkish police opened fire on a HDP election vehicle as citizens of the city were flooding to the hospitals to support those wounded in a bombing earlier that day.
Thousands of ball bearings struck crowd in Diyarbakır bombing
09:45 06/06/2015Teams analyzing the scene of yesterday's bomb attack in Diyarbakır say the cluster bombs used in the attack were filled with thousands of ball bearings.
Women file hate crime charges against Erdoğan
09:18 06/06/2015Women in the city of Iğdır, targeted by sexist remarks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after they peacefully protested him, have filed hate crime charges against the President.
State prepared for Diyarbakır massacre 3 days before
08:36 06/06/2015In Diyarbakır, a twin bombing with cluster bombs at a crowded rally for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has claimed four lives and wounded at least 350. It has emerged that the Diyarbakır ...
Diyarbakır protests spread throughout Northern Kurdistan
08:26 06/06/2015In the wake of a bombing at the massive Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) rally in Diyarbakır that has claimed four lives and wounded at least 350, the people in the cities of Batman, Cizre and ...
Massive provocation: explosions at HDP rally
18:51 05/06/2015At the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) elections rally in the main Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, two explosions woundedat least 20.
Turkish court finds woman 'guilty' for being beaten
13:12 05/06/2015A Turkish court in Ankara found a Turkish man guilty of assault against his wife—and found the woman herself guilty of the exact same crime because the hand her husband hit her with was swollen.
Women ready to guard against elections fraud in Turkey
12:29 05/06/2015With just two days to go until Turkey's June 7th election, women across the country say they are ready to guard their votes by serving as elections observers at the polls.
Men killed 26 women and girls in Turkey in one month
12:00 05/06/2015Research shows that the number of femicides in Turkey is higher than previous tallies: 26 women and girls were killed in femicides in May.
Iranian courts sentence Atena Farghadani to 12 years jail time
11:48 05/06/2015Iranian artist Atena Farghadani has been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in jail for a cartoon she drew criticizing reproductive health restrictions in Iran.
Teachers and Guerrero families campaign for elections boycott
10:57 05/06/2015In Guerrero and Oaxaca, teachers have occupied state facilities in support of the call for a boycott of Mexico's Sunday election. Meanwhile, police opened fire with tear gas on families of the ...
AKP spreads propaganda against HDP women and LGBTI candidates
09:51 05/06/2015Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) volunteers performed a citizens' arrest of AKP supporters spreading sexist and homophobic handbills against the HDP in Istanbul.
HDP calls for calm in face of racist provocations
09:30 05/06/2015With Turkey's elections approaching this Sunday, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) candidates and leaders across the country have implored HDP voters not to respond in anger to the racist attacks on ...
Fascist attackers attempt to burn HDP supporter alive
09:02 05/06/2015Attackers in the city of Erzurum attempted to burn a man to death in a coordinated fascist attack on the HDP rally in the city yesterday.
Women's group KJA denounces attack on HDP driver
12:44 04/06/2015The women's group Congress of Free Women (KJA) has made a statement declaring that in the wake of the brutal killing of a man driving a HDP elections vehicle just three days before Turkey's ...