357 Central African Republic child soldiers released
12:32 16/05/2015UNICEF says that armed groups in the Central African Republic have released 357 child soldiers as part of a deal with the involvement of the UN.
Argentinian women rebel for Chiara
12:20 16/05/2015After 14-year-old Chiara Paéz's boyfriend killed her when he found out she was pregnant, Argentinian women are planning a massive march on the congress to protest the continuing impunity for ...
Street art honors African women who fought against white slave masters
12:04 16/05/2015Street artist YZ Yseult has covered the walls of towns and cities in Senegal with portraits of woman warriors who took up arms against slavery.
Turkish court repeatedly argues that child 'consented' to sexual abuse
10:29 16/05/2015As women in Northern Kurdistan continue protesting a Turkish court's decision to acquit or give light sentences to eight military officers who sexually abused a 15-year-old girl based on the claim ...
Health students research 1930 massacre in Northern Kurdistan
10:15 16/05/2015In the absence of investigations into the 1930 massacre of 15,000 Kurds in the Zilan region of Van province, young health students have taken into their own hands the effort to research the massacre ...
Wife's disagreement cited as justification for femicide
09:24 16/05/2015The prosecutor in the case of Ahmet Karaca, who killed his wife in Turkey's Hatay province, requested a sentence reduction based on the suspect's claims that he was the "real victim" because his wife ...
Women denounce court decision to free soldier child molesters
08:48 16/05/2015Women's groups warned that courts in Turkey's Bingöl province were guilty of covering up war crimes by releasing child-molesting soldiers.
Mexican agricultural workers win provisions for childcare, women's safety
12:17 15/05/2015After a violently repressed two-month struggle, the agricultural laborers of Baja California's San Quintin Valley achieved the majority of their demands yesterday, including demands related to child ...
U.S. policies block Boko Haram survivors' access to abortion
12:09 15/05/2015With likely hundreds of the women rescued from Boko Haram captivity in Nigeria's Sambisa Forest earlier this month pregnant from rape, it has emerged that U.S. law contributes to their inability to ...
YPJ fighters defend Serêkaniyê villages
10:26 15/05/2015YPJ Commander Aryan Cûdî says that as YPJ/YPG fighters continue securing villages around the Rojava city of Serêkaniyê from Daesh gangs, village women are joining the ranks of the YPJ.
Ongoing child abuse case in Turkey re-traumatizes victims
09:51 15/05/2015There is still no conclusion in a three-year ongoing case related to the sexual abuse of five children by their teacher in the city of Diyarbakır, Turkey, which had its most recent hearing ...
Marches for Ferinaz continue in Northern Kurdistan and Turkey
09:44 15/05/2015The Congress of Free Women (KJA) organized simultaneous marches and protests for young Kurdish woman Ferinaz Xosrawanî yesterday in the cities of Diyarbakır, Adana and Van in Turkey.
Woman prisoner Fatma Tokmak's heart valves failing
09:21 15/05/2015Doctors say that Kurdish prisoner Fatma Tokmak is facing heart failure, while Turkish authorities still refuse to allow her to be hospitalized for treatment.
YPG/YPJ fighters liberate 11 villages in Hesekê
12:42 14/05/2015As YPG/YPJ forces start a comprehensive operation to push Daesh out of the area around the Rojava city of Hesekê, local people in the 11 recently liberated villages and hamlets have been relieved ...
Shengal women rebuild lives with women's center in refugee camp
12:20 14/05/2015The thousands of Êzidî women who fled Daesh's attacks on the city of Shengal have now set up a space where they can come together and produce their own goods in their refugee camp in the city of ...
Women weave economic solidarity in Black Sea region
11:19 14/05/2015In the Black Sea city of Samsun, Turkey, nearly 700 women have built their own solution to the problems they face: collective economic solidarity.
Elders of southern Turkish village: quarries killed our paradise
11:00 14/05/2015In a mountainside village in the southern Turkish province of Antalya, the old women of the town say they have watched with their own eyes as the paradise they grew up in turned into a hell.
Zeynep Gambetti compares Kurdish and Zapatista movements
10:27 14/05/2015Zeynep Gambetti, a political science professor at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, says that the time of direct democracy is here.
First orphanage opened in Rimelan
09:25 14/05/2015Cizîrê Canton in Rojava opened its first orphanage yesterday in the town of Rimelan.
Women are decision-makers in Rojava city governments
10:25 13/05/2015In Rojava, women municipal workers say they have worked to take part in all decision-making mechanisms in their city governments.