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14:52

Zhina Modares Gorji, a Kurdish journalist and women’s rights activist, has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison by the Court of Appeals in Sanandaj, Iran’s Kurdistan Province, her family reported.

13:50

“Women journalists fight for the truth with courage and determination,” say the statements released by the Mesopotamia Women Journalists’ Association and the Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) to mark Kurdish Women Journalists’ Day.

12:26

“We keep reporting the truth by following in the footsteps of women journalists, who lost their lives while reporting the truth such as Gurbetelli Ersöz, Deniz Fırat and Nujiyan Erhan.”

11:12

Thousands of killed women and children, babies dying of malnutrition, millions of displaced people, rape and torture… One year has passed since Israel started a war on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

14:21

Seven prisoners, including a woman, were hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj on Wednesday, bringing the number of women executed in Iran since 2017 to 249, according to the NCRI Women Committee.

13:51

A member of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team has won two medals at the 2024 FIRST Global Challenge held in Athens, Greece. 13-year-old Ghazal was the only member of the team participating in the competition.

12:31

99 US health workers, who have volunteered in the Gaza Strip over the past year, sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, urging the administration to “end this madness now!”

12:28

The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who gathered in the Plaza de Mayo on Thursday, demanded the end of isolation imposed on Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in the prison island of Imrali.

11:18

Evin prison authorities have prevented Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi from being transferred to the hospital to undergo angiography three times since September 10, 2024, Narges Mohammadi’s family said in a statement on Thursday.

09:08

“At the court, the murderer said he had been assigned by the Turkish state. We must fight for the real murderers to be brought to justice,” said Sarah Marcha, member of the International Justice Initiative for Nagihan Akarsel.

09:05

Arab women, who participated in the second Jineology Conference said, “Today, we are here to leave our mark in history, to improve ourselves and to build a society based on real science.”

14:51

“The health system in Lebanon has been weakened by successive crises and is struggling to cope with the immense needs,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said Wednesday on social media platform X.

14:38

A 21-year-old Yazidi woman named Fawzia Amin Sido, who was abducted by ISIS in Shengal 10 years ago, has been rescued and reunited with her family, Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday.

13:58

Sakineh Parvaneh, a Kurdish political activist imprisoned in Evin prison, has been denied family contact for starting a hunger strike.

13:30

Time magazine has named Dr Mahrang Baloch, a human rights activist in Pakistan and leader of Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), among its 100 “most influential people of 2024”.

12:25

“Jineology catches women’s attention all over the world,” said Nayrouz Muslim, an academic at the Al-Sharq University in Raqqa, talking about the second conference of the Jineology Academy held in Hasakah.

10:25

“Despite the siege and lack of food, we, as women, will struggle to survive with limited resources,” said Rawya Islim, a displaced woman in Gaza.

14:34

The Conference on Sociology of Freedom, organized by Kongra Star, has kicked off in Hasakah.

14:27

The employees and activists of BATZAC, an anti-capitalist and anarchist organization based in Catalonia, calls for support to the “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan and a political solution to the Kurdish question” campaign.

11:00

The Jineology Academy of North and East Syria has organized the 2nd “Jînergy Days” on the anniversary of journalist and Jineology Academy member Nagihan Akarsel’s murder.