HDP politician Ertuğrul calls for independent inspection of Şakran Prison
10:25 28/04/2015HDP politician Ertuğrul Kürkçü has called for an independent delegation of doctors and human rights workers to inspect Şakran Prison near Izmir, where three pregnant minors are being held in ...
Pregnant minors held in solitary in prison near İzmir
12:12 27/04/2015Three pregnant minors are being held in solitary confinement in Şakran prison near the city of Izmir as a punishment for being pregnant, it has emerged. Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Izmir ...
Kirkuk artists: ‘we are rebuilding life with art’
11:07 27/04/2015In the city of Kirkuk, art students working among the ruins of war say that the art they are producing will build a new way of life in the city.
Kobanê education systems aims to be exemplary against the odds
10:32 27/04/2015Of the 360 schools in Kobanê canton, just 50 are usable, says Perwin Hemo, of the canton’s language institution. Despite this, teachers are working to clean the munitions from schools and bring ...
Pakistani human rights activist Sabeen slain in Karachi
10:01 27/04/2015Sabeen Mahmud, a prominent Pakistani social and human rights activist, has been shot dead, shortly after hosting an event on Balochistan’s "disappeared people", in the southern city of Karachi.
Women of Kobanê organize across the city
14:06 24/04/2015Rojava women's organization Yekîtiya Star is continuing women's organizing meetings in the city. The group held two women's meetings in different neighborhood of the city, where women are largely ...
Yerevan commemorates of Armenian genocide
13:54 24/04/2015At genocide commemorations in Yerevan at the Tsitsernakaberd genocide memorial complex, Armenians remembered the Armenian genocide on its 100th anniversary. The purple forget-me-not that is the ...
Rana Plaza survivors and families remember massacre two years on
13:29 24/04/2015On the second anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, in which 1,100 mostly women workers lost their lives, families and survivors gathered at the site of the fallen factory to remember their ...
HDP women's election manifesto calls for a new Turkey
11:52 24/04/2015Since the release of the Women's Election Manifesto in Istanbul on Wednesday by the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), women's movements in Turkey have come out in support of the new manifesto. The ...
Southern Kurdish union women struggle for rights
10:14 24/04/2015In spite of laws that protect workers' rights in the Federal Kurdistan Region, women workers struggle with inequality and violence in the workplace, according to Leyla Kerim Mixemed, of the executive ...
YPJ fighter Rojbîn says truth will win in Rojava
09:55 24/04/2015YPJ fighter Rojbîn Arjîn, originally from the Kurdish city of Diyarbakır (Amed) in Northern Kurdistan, said she knows that the struggle for freedom that she traveled to Rojava to defend will win ...
Abortion rights group Women on Waves in Istanbul
09:32 24/04/2015International women's rights group Women on Waves (WOW), which travels around the world providing safe and legal abortions in international waters for women in countries where abortion is illegal, ...
Library named for girl who died for a book
09:22 24/04/2015Volunteers opened a library yesterday in the southern Turkish city of Antalya, named after a 12-year-old girl who killed herself after her teachers accused her of stealing books.
Siirt women overcome police barricade
09:08 24/04/2015Women in the Kurdish city of Siirt, protesting two Turkish policemen's abduction of two teenage girls and a spate of local femicides, overcame a police barricade yesterday to continue their march.
Campaign for children under six in Turkey's prisons
09:06 24/04/2015Children's rights workers have launched a campaign for children under the age of six in Turkey's prisons, called "There's a Child Inside."
On Turkey's Children's Day, children live in insecurity
12:50 23/04/2015While Turkey celebrates April 23 as Children's Day, the Association Agenda: Child reports that at least 627 children died preventable deaths in Turkey last year.
'Forgive me': Peruvian women collect stories of violence
10:39 23/04/2015In Perú, one of the world's worst countries for femicide and violence against women, women have collected the final letters that abusive men sent to their partners.
HDP women release Women's Election Manifesto
10:29 23/04/2015In a meeting at Istanbul's Taksim Hill Hotel yesterday, women of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) released a Women's Election Manifesto.
Two years later, women demand justice for Rana Plaza
09:21 23/04/2015Tomorrow, women and workers will be out in force around the world to demand justice for the Rana Plaza workplace disaster, in which 1,100 mostly women workers died.
Women on Waves sets sail to Turkey for abortion rights
10:05 22/04/2015The international abortion rights group Women on Waves (WOW) has announced that it is coming to Turkey in solidarity with women's right to abortion.