With the Rojava revolution, the Kurdish women organized themselves in the self defense area as well as social, diplomatic and economic spheres. Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) was developed in the Rojava revolution, became an effective force in all three cantons and answered the attacks from the outside as the authentic […]
A group of women from Rojhelat in a statement strongly condemned the irreverent and complex words of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) peshmargas regarding female guerrillas and requested women of other political parties of Rojhelat to take stance. In their statement they criticized the initial nationalist thoughts of classic movements […]
KHRN ─ Locals in the Kurdish city of Merîwan have protested how the Iranian security forces tried to prevent women from participating in a weekly public environmental awareness activity. Riding bicycles as an environmental awareness campaign usually takes place on Thursdays across Iran. Women and men of all ages together begun to […]
JINHA, AMED ─ Two women, who promised each other that they would never leave alone each other in every area of life on the lands they were born, fought until the last moment in order to fulfill their promise. Axîn and Zeryan met in Botan region last time. They wrote their names […]
JINHA, MÊRDÎN – Women harvested the first products of the project natural farming, they sell the products by taking them to market dominated by men with purple handcarts as second step. Nuda Women’s Center members, who carry out their works within Qoser Municipality, harvested the first products of natural farming […]
JINHA, KOBANÊ ─ Women, who welcomed the Leader Abdullah Öcalan with open arms on July 1, 1979 when he passed to Rojava Kurdistan before the military coup of 12 September 1980, describe him. One of these women Emîra Eluş stated that Abdullah Öcalan always read books and she said, “He […]
NEWS CENTER, Ceren Karlıdağ / JINHA ─ Two women named Bahar Ada and Saadet Demir began to march to say, “There are Kurds” by presenting a declaration to UN countries after the first siege in Cizre. Bahar said, “The world is a body. When a finger hurts, all body suffers. […]
JINHA, ISTANBUL ─ Monna Le Yeuc’h from the delegation of European Grassroots Antiracist Movement made evaluations on the visibility of human rights violations in Turkey from Europe. Monna came to Istanbul with the delegation in order to follow the case of Chris Stemphson. Monna said, “The violations in Turkey are invisible in […]
ANF, PARIS ─ The Kurdish Women’s Movement in Europe (TJK-E) held its “Jineoloji against the darkness of positive sciences; woman life freedom” conference in the French capital city Paris. Participants of the conference discussed the critique of positive sciences and discussed the parameters of Jineoloji as a women’s paradigm. The […]
JINHA, NEWS CENTER ─ A reaction came from the US to the closure of the office of REPAK in Hewlêr (Erbil). 75 people, mostly academics, urged the Kurdistan Regional Government to remove the obstacles to the works of the Kurdish Center for Women’s Affairs (REPAK). The premises of the Kurdish Women’s Relation Office […]
Political prisoners held in the Women’s Ward at Iran’s Evin Prison are routinely denied medical care and hospitalization, face severely restricted or denied visitation rights even with their young children, are deprived of regular telephone contact with their families, and are not provided adequate nutrition, according to a report released […]
In the city of Karlstad, Sweden, a seminar was organized by KJAR Europe (Free Women Society of Eastern Kurdistan) and Communist Party of Karlstad about the remarklable YPJ women (Women’s Protection Units), that fight against ISIS (Daesh) on the front lines in Rojava (western Kurdistan). The main topics of the […]
Woman’s freedom will play a stabilising and equalising role in forming the new civilisation and she will take her place under respectable, free and equal conditions. To achieve this, the necessary theoretical, programmatic, organisational and implementation work must be done. The reality of woman is a more concrete and analysable […]
The prosecutor of Iran’s city of Khoy has rejected a request by Kurdish female political prisoner Zeyneb Celaliyan (Zeynab Jalalian) to receive medical treatment outside the prison for her severe illnesses, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to the source, Zeyneb Celaliyan has been suffering from […]
ŞIRNEX, ANF ─ It came out that DBP Assembly member Sêvê Demir, Silopi People’s Assembly co-chair Pakize Nayır and KJA activist Fatma Uyar are among the four people murdered by state forces in Şirnex’s Silopî district. Body of another slain civilian is yet to be identified. The four people were […]
The brutal execution – Şehîd Ekîn Wan Turkey’s message to the world was: We are fighting terrorists, we must knock out the IS, but the plan from the begining was fighting against the IS then turn against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party). The attacks against IS was an excuse to attack the […]
ANF, BUENOS AIRES ─ The International Kurdish Women’s Movement and the Kurdish Solidarity Committee in Argentina have launched a joint campaign calling for the release of Zeyneb Celaliyan, who is still in prison in Iran despite her illness. Meetings to gain support for the petition with various women’s organisations and […]
According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Kurdish political prisoner Ghadriye Ghaderi (Qedriye Qadirî) has been on a hunger strike since 23 April protesting imprisonment far from her hometown. Ghadriye Ghaderi is on hunger strike at the women section of Yasouj prison, the source said. The prison officials had initially agreed to […]
Selay Ghaffar, spokesperson for Solidarity Party of Afghanistan, explained in an interview with ROJ NEWS, that their party strive for freedom of Afghanistan, and underlined that equality between men and women is one of the most important principle in regards to the struggle of women in Afghanistan and obstacles these […]
Zeynab Jalalian (Kurdish: Zeyneb Celaliyan), a female Kurdish political prisoner born in 1982 in Maku, city of Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan). Jalalian is a Kurdish political activist who committed her life to women’s rights and the participation of Kurdish women in politics. She was especially engaged in educating girls and women […]
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