Women bid farewell to YPJ fighter Hacire
09:13 30/05/2015A crowd of thousands laid YPJ fighter Hacire Kurt (nom de guerre Newal Farqin) to rest in the main Kurdish city of Diyarbakır yesterday.
Kurdish women's movement celebrates new legal status
09:11 30/05/2015The main Kurdish women's movement organization, Congress of Free Women (KJA), celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Diyarbakır yesterday with an opening ceremony.
Women reporters in Turkey under attack
14:41 29/05/2015The Diyarbakır-based group Society of Free Journalists, commenting on the recent threats against JINHA reporters, has said that the state is consciously working to silence women's voices and press ...
New women's academy named for Sakine Cansız
14:18 29/05/2015A new women's academy named after Kurdish woman revolutionary Sakine Cansız has been opened in Northern Kurdistan in the city of Nusaybin, in Mardin province.
Gezi police violence survivor Lobna: 'wake up!'
14:04 29/05/2015Lobna Allamii's life changed forever two years ago in the Gezi resistance, when a police tear gas canister struck her in the head. Today Lobna, who experienced serious brain damage and has had to ...
Rojava newspaper publishes critical news with gender-equal perspective
13:12 29/05/2015Women journalists at Rojava's bilingual Ronahî newspaper says their newspaper, which has a gender parity policy, aims to be the voice of all women and to reflect the realities of Rojava.
Women on Southern Kurdish constitutional committee: men must support us
10:20 29/05/2015In the Federal Kurdistan Region of Iraq, women from the Goran Movement serving on the new constitutional commission say they are determined to make positive changes for women in the region's new ...
Former seasonal migrant women resent life between four walls
09:55 29/05/2015For Kurdish women who once practiced the life of seasonal migration in Kurdistan called "koçer," life under the electric lamps of the city is not a choice; it's a prison forced on them by the state.
Women activists bury Rojava refugee femicide victim
08:59 29/05/2015Although they did not know her name, Kurdish women activists held a funeral yesterday for a young woman refugee from Rojava who was killed for refusing an arranged marriage.
Elderly women in Portugal express themselves with graffiti
14:43 28/05/2015In Lisbon, the project LATA 65 is bringing the elderly into the streets as graffiti artists.
Just 3 of Ankara's 30 hospitals provide voluntary abortions
12:51 28/05/2015In Turkey, abortion is legal—but it is emerging that hospitals across the country implement a policy of misinforming women about their right to abortion. The latest research on the subject has ...
Peruvian women hold naked protest against rejection of abortion law
11:04 28/05/2015In Perú, where women face jail time for having abortions, women from the group Déjala Decidir (Let Her Decide) held a naked protest outside the congress last night after the congress rejected a law ...
Kurdish migrant women agricultural laborers: we're working for nothing
10:09 28/05/2015Kurdish women who have migrated to the Turkish city of Antalya in search of work say that they have had enough of the 12-hour days working in dangerous conditions of the greenhouses. They plan to ...
Saturday Mothers fight for justice on 20th anniversary
09:25 28/05/2015On the 20th anniversary of the Saturday Mothers' May 27, 1995 action to demand justice for the disappeared yesterday, the group—still calling for the trial of those who disappeared and killed their ...
JINHA reporter threatened by unknown man
08:50 28/05/2015Beritan Canözer, a reporter for JINHA, was threatened by an unknown person while covering news in the town of Silvan in Diyarbakır province.
HDP goes ahead with banned elections rally
08:35 28/05/2015The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has announced that they will go ahead with their Istanbul rally planned in for May 30 in the neighborhood of Kazlıçeşme, which the local election board had ...
Just 4 women on Southern Kurdish Constitutional Committee
14:23 27/05/2015With the commission for a new constitution continuing to dominate the agenda in the Federal Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the composition of the committee has been announced: just four women will serve ...
Women to discuss peace and gender at Beirut conference
14:20 27/05/2015On June 8, women academics and activists will come together in Beirut, Lebanon for a conference on the gendered nature of wars in the Middle East and Central Asia.
India heat wave kills over 1,100 poor and elderly
14:06 27/05/2015The heat wave in India has claimed over 1,100 people's lives in just two weeks. Most of those who have died are the homeless, elderly and workers.
Elderly women build communal life in Babayaga House
12:31 27/05/2015The communal home Babayaga House provides feminist, communal and affordable living for elderly women in the heart of Paris' Montreuil district. Founder Thérèse Clerc says the aging women of '68 ...