Citizens of Til Temir start environmental cleanup campaign
12:38 04/06/2015In the Rojava city of Til Temir, an environmental cleanup campaign has begun in the wake of months of Daesh attacks.
Constitutional court win for woman bullied with 'sex videos'
12:19 04/06/2015Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of a nurse who was fired after an unknown person opened a social media account in her name and shared alleged "sex videos."
Women working southern Turkey's fields want a choice in their lives
12:18 04/06/2015Women agricultural workers in Turkey's hot southern Çukurova region say they want to work the land not because they are forced to, but because they want to. They are hopeful that in this election, ...
Turkish courts reject investigation into missing woman
12:06 04/06/2015A woman named Kevi Elban is still missing 3.5 months after she got into a car with her abusive husband in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The prosecutor's office has refused toinvestigate the ...
Women's backs turn on Erdoğan across Turkey
11:29 04/06/2015Women across Turkey are joining the campaign to "turn our backs on President Erdoğan," holding "back-turning actions" to condemn the President's sexist remarks in a wave of women's resistance. Women ...
200,000 declare 'no more' to femicide in Buenos Aires
11:25 04/06/2015200,000 people took part in the Ni UnaMenos mobilization against femicide in Buenos Aires yesterday. Protests took place in over one hundred other cities in five Latin American countries.
Women's backs turn on Erdoğan across Turkey
10:43 03/06/2015Women across Turkey are joining the campaign to "turn our backs on President Erdoğan," holding "back-turning actions" to condemn the President's sexist remarks in a wave of women's resistance. Women ...
Fatma Tokmak to go into surgery a second time
10:42 04/06/2015The Kurdish woman prisoner Fatma Tokmak, who has been denied medical treatment for her severe health problems, emerged from surgery alive yesterday, but is currently under observation pending ...
Men killed 21 women in Turkey in May
10:12 04/06/2015There were at least 21 femicides in Turkey in May, with Istanbul and Ankara leading the way for the number of femicides in the country, according to statistics gathered by the Socialist Women's ...
UN: 1,612 trans people killed in six years
14:45 03/06/2015The UN's new report on violence against LGBTI people says that such violence is widespread and impunity is high around the world.
37 Serêkaniyê women graduate from self-defense training
14:15 03/06/2015With Daesh's femicidal attacks on Rojava ongoing, women across the region continue to seek out self-defense training. 37 Serêkaniyê women celebrated their graduation from self-defense training.
Iğdır women to file hate crime charges against President Erdoğan
14:06 03/06/2015The group of women who Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targeted with sexist remarks for their protest in Iğdır province said they plan to file hate crime charges against him.
Kurdish woman prisoner Fatma Tokmak to go into surgery early
13:29 03/06/2015Fatma Tokmak, a Kurdish woman who had developed severe heart problems in prison after being tortured by Turkish security forces, is expected to be on the operating table today.
"Antipatriarca:" a music video made with women's collective labor
12:53 03/06/2015Dozens of women from around the world have contributed their spirit of struggle to Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux's latest video, for her song "Antipatriarca."
Thousands to march against femicide in Argentina
11:59 03/06/2015Women in Argentina are preparing for a massive day of action against femicide under the slogan "Ni Una Menos." Thousands of women are expected to take to the streets of Buenos Aires to demand and end ...
Women intellectuals in Turkey: Parliament needs the HDP
10:22 03/06/2015With just days left until Turkey's election, messages of support are continuing to rain in for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) from every segment of Turkey's society—from workers to academics. ...
Woman politician Sebahat Tuncel: down with politics by the mustachioed class
09:58 03/06/2015Sebahat Tuncel, the co-speaker of the Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK), says it's time for an end to politics in Turkey by "the ones with mustaches, bellies and money."
Women help return Til Temir to normal
09:46 03/06/2015As the YPG/YPJ resistance drives back Daesh attacks on the Rojava city of Til Temir, life has begun to return to normal. Women in the Logistics Center are working to ensure the safety of the ...
Half of women experience violence in Turkey
09:34 03/06/201550% of women in Turkey experience physical violence, according to a report by Turkey's Women's Center Foundation (KAMER).
LGBTI groups protest for apparent LGBTI suicide victim Sinan Akyüz
09:13 03/06/2015After the alleged suicide of gay Kurdish LGBTI activist Sinan Akyüz in Turkey's eastern province of Van, groups in the province gathered to condemn homophobia and hate.