Ruth Mompati ends a lifetime of struggle for South Africa
10:22 13/05/2015Ruth Mompati, a leader of the South African resistance, died in a hospital in Cape Town yesterday after a short illness. She was 89.
Rojava students work to make Kurdish their literary language
10:18 13/05/2015Rojava students and teachers, starting celebrations for the Kurdish language holiday of May 15 in the city of Hesekê, have organized a poetry contest to contribute to making the long-oppressed ...
Healthcare workers stand up against sexism for Nursing Week
08:55 13/05/2015This Nursing Week, May 12-18, healthcare workers have been holding press conferences and marches across Turkey to call attention to the heavy workloads and sexist exploitation directed at nurses.
Peace Mothers travel to Kobanê
08:23 13/05/2015Members of the Peace Mothers Assembly traveled to Kobanê yesterday to support the reconstruction of the war-torn Rojava city.
Women at university in Diyarbakır: we have no safety
13:33 12/05/2015After students launched a spontaneous night march last night against a harassment incident at the Dicle University campus in Diyarbakır, Turkey, women students are speaking out to say that they have ...
Women call for support for Yemen
13:22 12/05/2015Women in Yemen are fighting for an end to the war with filmmaking and peace activism.
Another 7.4 earthquake shakes Nepal
12:42 12/05/2015Less than three weeks after an earthquake devastated Nepal and killed 8,000, another earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 has struck Nepal.
6,000 Rohingya on 'death boats' in Malacca Straits
12:36 12/05/2015After Rohingya refugees have been turned away from Malaysia's border gates, human rights groups fear a crisis as around 6,000 refugees are thought to be stranded in the open water of the Malacca ...
Women in Northern Kurdistan march for Ferinaz
08:52 12/05/2015Women in five provinces in Northern Kurdistan took to the squares yesterday for Ferinaz Xosrawanî, the woman who sparked a popular uprising in Mahabad when she lost her life trying to escape a rape ...
Spontaneous night march against harassment at Diyarbakır university
08:37 12/05/2015After two women students were harassed at Diyarbakır's Dicle University last night, hundreds of women students gathered to march throughout the night, in spite of police repression.
March for Ferinaz in Kandil
11:41 11/05/2015Hundreds of women, including Eastern Kurdish families driven from their homes by the Iranian regime, held a march for Ferinaz Xosrawanî in the Kandil mountains guerrilla-protected area.
Women: the peace process belongs to us
11:32 11/05/2015180 women gathered this weekend in Istanbul for a workshop on women's role in the peace and resolution process for the Kurdish issue, with the attendance of the women who make up half of the İmralı ...
First orphanage for Rojava children opening
11:07 11/05/2015The city of Rimelan, in Cizîrê Canton, is opening Rojava's first center for children who have lost their parents.
Patriarchal coup junta died without seeing justice, say women
10:16 11/05/2015The leader of the 1980 military coup in Turkey, Kenan Evren, died in hospital in Ankara yesterday. Women survivors of the coup say it is deeply wrong that the general died without being tried by the ...
Report: 96% of women in Siirt province experienced violence
09:38 11/05/2015In Turkey's city of Siirt, 96% of women have experienced physical violence, according to a new report by the Siirt Municipality Women's Council.
Women bid farewell to YPJ fighter Savuşka
08:59 11/05/2015Nearly ten thousand people gathered for the funeral of YPJ fighter Saliha Tanrıkulu (Savuşka Spêrtî) in the town of Silopi, Şırnak province, in Northern Kurdistan.
Mothers gather at Kobanê border
08:38 11/05/2015Peace Mothers Assemblies of Northern Kurdistan headed to the Kobanê border in the early hours yesterday morning to protest the ongoing war.
Thousands remember Soma mine disaster
08:31 11/05/2015Thousands gathered to remember the first anniversary of the Soma mine disaster in Manisa province yesterday. The disaster, in which 301 workers died from workplace safety neglect in the mine, was one ...
This Mother's Day, mothers struggle to learn their children's fate
16:05 09/05/2015The weekly actions for justice for the missing and disappeared in Northern Kurdistan this week called attention to the countless mothers in the region who live every day hoping for news from their ...
Saturday Mothers: no happy Mother's Day for us
15:54 09/05/2015The Saturday Mothers, who demonstrate every week in Istanbul's Galatasary Square for justice for their disappeared loved ones, said that as Turkish officials make their Mother's Day announcements ...