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10:42

Palestinian feminist activists say that Israel violates international conventions protecting women and children and that the silence of the international community against the violations encourages Israel to commit more crimes.

15:24

The Turkish state keeps cutting down trees in Kurdistan. In the Biliga village of Şırnak’s Silopi district, village guards have cut down thousands of trees under the supervision of soldiers.

14:51

At least 20 prisoners died in Iran’s prisons in the first six months of 2023, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.

14:49

This morning, police raided a refugee camp in the town of Lavrio, Greece. More than 50 Kurdish refugees, including women and children, have been detained to be transferred to other camps.

14:18

Kurdish activist Halide Dündar was laid to rest in Amed by her comrades.

12:37

12-year-old Melika Borji, who was shot in the head by Iranian security forces three and half months ago, has reportedly died at a hospital.

09:17

Aliye Muhammed, Co-chair of the Health Committee of Afrin-Shahba, says diseases have spread in the camps of Shahba due to the siege imposed by the Syrian government and calls on humanitarian organizations to take action against the siege.

15:32

Heyat Pîşkîn, who makes a living by working as a tailor in the Martyr Rustem Cudi Camp (Makhmour Refugee Camp), says they cannot meet their needs due to the embargo imposed on the camp by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

15:31

At least 354 people, including six women, were executed in the first six months of 2023, according to the Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO).

13:26

The Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran has demanded a five-year prison sentence against Iranian journalists Saeideh Shafiei, Mehrnoush Henzaki, and Nasim Beigi on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “Acting against national security”

12:52

“Justice brings us together. We will keep seeking justice. We will always be in solidarity with each other,” said the families of victims of the Suruç massacre during their visit to Emine Şenyaşar in front of the Urfa Courthouse.

10:27

In Turkey, 22 women were killed by men and 27 more died under suspicious circumstances in June, according to the report released by the We Will Stop Femicide Platform (KCDP).

09:50

Kurdish activist Halide Dündar has died from heart failure at the age of 61

15:19

The Taliban have imposed a ban on all women’s beauty salons across Afghanistan. The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has issued a letter instructing the closure of beauty salons by 24 July.

14:56

Emine Şenyaşar has been seeking justice in front of the Urfa Courthouse for 833 days.

14:43

Violence against women has risen in the Kurdistan Region. In June, women became victims of femicide and gender-based violence while the authorities did not take any measures to protect women.

12:29

Nahid Shirpisheh, the mother of Pouya Bakhtiari who was killed during the November 2019 uprising in Iran, was beaten by several prisoners in the prison while wardens were watching.

11:22

The Turkish state keeps committing crimes against humanity in the occupied Afrin. In the first six months of 2023, at least 12 civilians were killed and at least 173 others were kidnapped in Afrin.

10:47

Three Palestinians have been killed and 13 others have been injured in a massive military operation launched by the Israeli army on the Jenin camp in the north of the occupied West Bank.

09:32

The villages of earthquake-affected Semsûr mostly depend on tobacco. Village women, who have already planted tobacco, are worried about how to store it after harvest because they have no place.