Young singer shot in the head in Diyarbakır
10:08 20/05/201519-year-old Mutlu Kaya, shot in the head by an attacker who entered her home in the town of Ergani, Turkey, is struggling for life in a hospital intensive care unit as sexist and racist media ...
Afghan courts acquit eight police, sentence 11 in Farkhunda case
09:45 20/05/2015Kabul courts have acquitted eight policeman and sentenced eleven to just one year of prison for "negligence of duty" in the killing of Farkhunda in Afghanistan.
Indian woman dies after 42-year coma caused by rape
09:36 20/05/2015ArunaShanbaug, who has spent the last 42 years of her life in a coma after a rape and murder attempt in 1973, passed away on Monday in Mumbai.
HDP goes ahead with rally in spite of attacks
15:16 18/05/2015The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has announced that they will go ahead with the election rally planned for today in the city of Mersin, where a bomb exploded in the party's election office ...
8,000 form human wall to protect Basque activist Aiala
14:53 18/05/2015After the people in the Basque city of Gasteiz formed a human wall to protect seven young Basque activists from arrest, police violently broke up the group in order to arrest Aiala Zaldibar and two ...
Diyarbakır residents hope for another Amed Book Fair
14:24 18/05/2015In the Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, the first-ever Amed Book Fair has been packed with readers. The presence of a book fair with Kurdish books was perhaps most meaningful for women of the city, who ...
Mexican self-defense leader Nestora on hunger strike
14:07 18/05/2015Nestora Salgado García, arrested for forming a community self-defense group in her hometown in the largely indigenous state of Guerrero, Mexico, is on the 13th day of her hunger strike today.
HDP women: as long as bombing is unsolved, the state is guilty
13:52 18/05/2015After a simultaneous bomb attack on two Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) offices earlier today, women leaders in the HDP say the AKP is in a state of war against their party.
Courts torment child sexual abuse victims with long trial
13:30 18/05/2015As Diyarbakır teacher Düyaüddün Toprak continues working at the same school where he sexually attacked at least five girls two years ago, the girls have been re-traumatized by a court that ...
Simultaneous bomb attack against HDP buildings
11:34 18/05/2015Four are wounded in simultaneous bomb attacks on two offices of left opposition party Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Mersin and Adana. One of the wounded is Adana's co-chair for the Seyhan ...
Saturday Mothers continue quest for justice
10:55 17/05/2015The Saturday Mothers continued their quest for justice yesterday, gathering in Istanbul's Galatasaray Square for their weekly protest, which coincided this week with the International Week against ...
Amed Book Fair draws avid child readers
10:01 17/05/2015As the first ever Amed Book Fair draws to a close today in Diyarbakır after five days of talks, book signings and activities, readers of all ages are heading home with their finds. Two of the most ...
Human rights defenders demonstrate for sick prisoner Fatma
09:37 17/05/2015The Human Rights Association (İHD) in Istanbul called, in their 165th "F sit-in" against Turkey's high-security F-type prisons, for the release of sick prisoner Fatma Tokmak, currently facing death ...
Saturday protests call for justice in Kurdistan once more
09:24 17/05/2015In actions in the Northern Kurdish cities of Batman, Yüksekova and Diyarbakır, relatives of the disappeared held their weekly Saturday actions to demand that those who have been forcibly ...
Women occupy the border for Ferinaz
09:20 17/05/2015Kurdish women protested at the border between Iran and Turkey in an action condemning the Iranian regime's role in the death of Ferinaz Xosrawanî, who died nearly two weeks ago in the Kurdish city ...
Kobanê refugee children get report cards
08:51 17/05/2015Kobanê refugees received their report cards in Diyarbakır yesterday from the native-language educational center MAPER.
Gender parity uncertain in Mexico election
13:45 16/05/2015As Mexico's election approaches on June 7, uncertainty continues about whether the country's laws to promote gender parity in political representation will go unrealized for yet another year.
Selma searches for her daughter 18 years after massacre
13:34 16/05/201518 years after the Hewlêr Massacre, Kurdish mother Selma Ferec Qaradaxi has not given up her quest for justice for the daughter she lost in the massacre.
Kurdish village women talk gender in Çınar
12:56 16/05/2015With recent months seeing a rise in women's "suicides" under suspicious circumstances in rural areas of Northern Kurdistan, the women's center in an area stricken by these deaths has launched a ...
Qamişlo women graduate from Kurdish academy
12:46 16/05/2015Teachers in the Rojava city of Qamişlo received their certificates in Kurdish language in a ceremony yesterday that coincided with May 15, celebrated as Kurdish Language Day.