‘How many more children will die in Antep?’
12:36 30/04/2015After untraced gunshots killed two children in two separate events in a town in Turkey’s southern province of Antep, neighborhood residents are asking how many more children have to die before ...
Hesekê women traffic police say women can run society
12:27 30/04/2015Women members of the traffic police in the Rojava city of Hesekê say that their work shows that women can run society.
Villagers in Southern Kurdistan call for protection of cultural, historic heritage
11:57 30/04/2015In the historic village of Dereymer, in the Federal Kurdistan Region, villagers forced to leave the village are working to secure protection for the ancient site.
Women’s Houses aim to reach all Rojava women
11:29 30/04/2015Cîhan Mihemed of the Women’s House in the Rojava town of Rimêlan say that the institution aims to solve the problems of all local women.
Women arrested in Istanbul occupation: stand up for women prisoners
11:22 30/04/2015Women arrested during the Tuesday occupation of an Istanbul ministry building were released from police custody yesterday. The arrestees say the world needs to hear about the abuses against women and ...
Court detains 10 women for Şakran solidarity action
14:00 29/04/2015After police arrested 10 women during an Istanbul occupation to protest the inaction in the case of juvenile women prisoners being abused in Izmir’s Şakran Prison, courts have ordered that all ten ...
Lawyers say Turkish soldiers’ border killings violate international law
13:55 29/04/2015Lawyers investigating the deaths of civilian women shot by Turkish soldiers on the Rojava border says Turkey is engaged in violations of international agreements and human rights.
Rojava singer overcomes all with her voice
13:40 29/04/2015Rojava artist Cengê Serhildan has set out to give a new voice to women’s life in Kurdistan with her songs.
Woman apparently commits suicide in Southern Kurdistan after husband’s abuse
13:24 29/04/2015An 18-year-old woman in the town of Kelar, near the city of Sulaimaniyah in Southern Kurdistan, lost her life in the hospital after attempting to commit suicide. She set herself on fire when she was ...
Baltimore women object to representation of protests
13:17 29/04/2015As U.S. media attempt to represent the Baltimore uprising in a negative light, women leaders in the movement say they do so by ignoring women’s resistance
On May 1, women workers of Istanbul head for Taksim
12:12 29/04/2015Women are preparing for Istanbul’s International Workers’ Day rally in Taksim Square. They say they will be out resisting in the square in spite of the ruling AKP’s attempt to silence women ...
Workers prepare to take streets of Batman on May 1
11:12 29/04/2015This year, Kurdistan’s center for International Workers’ Day is the working class castle of Batman (Êlih in Kurdish). Workers say their rally in the city, where 800 workers have been let go in ...
Li Yan’s death sentence reversed
10:28 29/04/2015On Friday, Chinese courts announced the reversal of the death sentence for Li Yan, who killed her husband after suffering through his abuse for more than a year.
World March of Women heads to Vienna
09:57 29/04/2015After spending the last month in the Balkans, the international action of the World March of Women will set out for Vienna today.
London women rebel against sexist ad
14:25 28/04/2015A campaign against a sexist body-shaming ad in the London Underground has spread, with women modifying ads with feminist messages. Meanwhile, the company behind the weight loss product ad has called ...
Women occupy Ministry of Family and Social Policies in Istanbul
13:57 28/04/2015A group of women occupied the Istanbul building of Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Policies, demanding justice for victims of rape in Izmir’s Şakran Prison. Police intervened and ...
Peace Mother works to be comrade to YPJ daughter
13:24 28/04/2015Selma Öztürk, of the Kurdish province of Mardin, says that after her daughter headed to Rojava to join the YPJ, she joined the organization Peace Mothers to work for her daughter’s cause of ...
KJA activists set up women’s election bureaus for June election
13:20 28/04/2015The Kurdish women’s organization Congress of Free Women (KJA) explains that they have been engaged in a project of setting up women’s election bureaus to help women autonomously organize for ...
Kobanê through the lens of a woman journalist
13:18 28/04/2015Hawar News Agency reporter Nazdar Abdi, who worked in Kobanê, throughout the war, spoke about her commitment to reporting on the resistance in the city no matter the cost. “The education I’ve ...
Lawyers say reports from Şakran Prison are tip of the iceberg
10:48 28/04/2015As concern grows about conditions in Turkey’s notorious Şakran Prison, lawyers conducting interviews there say the reports of solitary confinement of pregnant minors are the tip of the iceberg.