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13:34

The HEDEP called the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly to have an urgent meeting for discussion on the re-signing of the Istanbul Convention.

13:00

The Turkish Supreme Court has rejected the request of the Green Left Party to change its name to the People’s Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP) due to its acronym.

10:38

Human rights activist Khadija Rebbah says that the patriarchal mindset in Morocco prevents women from participating in politics, demanding gender equality be guaranteed by law.

09:06

“Women have the power to solve all the problems in the Middle East, particularly the problems faced by women,” said Siham Davut, Secretary General of the Future Syria Party.

07:41

Xurbet İşlek, coordinating member of the İştar Assembly in the Makhmour refugee camp, says that organized women have the power to stop all attacks, emphasizing that November 25 is an indicator of women's struggle.

13:55

Two journalists Issam al-Barsh and Mohammad al-Rizk were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.

13:04

Political prisoner Nasim Simiari has been on a hunger strike in Evin prison since Monday to protest her unlawful detention and violation of her right to an attorney.

11:47

Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) deputy co-chair Beycan Taşkıran and Socialist Women's Council (SKM) Central Executive Board member Satiye Ok were taken into custody in house raids conducted in Amed.

11:38

Egyptian lawyer Nermin Issa says that women want to live in safer society without violence and that women can raise a generation contributing to the development of society.

10:07

“I was subjected to violence and mistreatment by my husband. I have been suffering from abdominal pain, excessive sweating and shortness of breath for nine months,” said 19-year-old Mona Al-İdris, who lives in the occupied Idlib.

08:16

In the last 11 months, 24 women and 10 children were killed, 22 women and 14 children were kidnapped in Afrin, Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî, occupied by the Turkish state and Turkish-backed factions.

13:29

Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was taken back to prison after undergoing an angioplasty procedure in hospital.

12:30

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake shook Zahedan, a city in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province on Tuesday. Iranian health authorities announced that 71 people have been injured in the earthquake.

12:21

“Women can now report violence against them,” said Kawsar Hassan, head of the women's department of the Social Bureau in Sulaymaniyah.

10:31

“The silence against the crimes committed against Syrian and Libyan women led to the massacres in Gaza,” said Salsabil Al-Qalibi, Professor of Constitutional Law in Tunisia.

09:29

Asli Pasinli, lawyer and president of the DAKAH-DER, emphasized that a war has started against women’s gains in Turkey. “We should not allow these attacks and always struggle against them.”

09:17

Armita Pavir, a student activist and one of the detainees of the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” (Women, Life, Freedom) movement, was transferred to Imam Reza Hospital in Tabriz on Sunday due to her deteriorating health condition.

14:03

Iranian environmental journalist Elaheh Mousavi has been acquitted of all accusations against her.

11:41

Israel’s attacks on Gaza have entered their 45th day. 31 premature babies were evacuated from Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital.

11:29

Heavy rain caused flash flooding in Kurdish cities last night. In Êlih (Batman), a mother and her son died after their adobe house collapsed due to the flood, two children are still missing.