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On the 273rd day of the sit-in protest of the Şenyaşar family demanding justice, Emine Şenyaşar has been reportedly summoned to testify for allegedly “insulting a public official”.

12:50

Women revealed a crime network forcing women into prostitution in Sardasht, a city in Iran. Three members of the network have been arrested while the victims begin to talk about what they faced. The women living in the city launch an online campaign to raise awareness against such networks.

10:40

2021 was an active year for students in Turkey; the resistance of Boğaziçi University students, the protests of students, who had nowhere to stay, the arrests against students, and repression against female students. We spoke to Özlem Damla Arık, a student of Boğaziçi University, about the resistance of the student movement in 2021.

12:26

25 women were killed by men, 21 more died under suspicious circumstances in November, according to the report of the We Will Stop Femicide Platform.

08:30

Latifa Akharbach, the head of the High Authority for Communication (HACA), drew attention to the increasing rates of violence against women and said the root causes of violence against women should be investigated.

13:50

Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have demanded justice for their killed relatives for 269 days.

11:36

Kobanî Women's Council held its annual meeting in Kobanî to discuss the activities and works of the council during the year.

10:15

In 2015, a 24-hour curfew was declared in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. The curfew destroying many neighborhoods of the district and forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes lasted more than three months. “People were deprived of many rights during the curfew. Especially women suffered from trauma. The citizens, who didn’t leave their homes, are recently stuck between drugs and prostitution,” said Gulan Çağın Kaleli, a lawyer of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT).

09:00

Oxfam has launched a project called, “Women’s Voice and Leadership” in Morocco. The project will respond to the needs of local organizations to defend human rights in 30 countries around the world, including Morocco.

14:00

Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have demanded justice in front of the Urfa Courthouse for nine months.

12:54

In Turkey, street lights are turned on 15 minutes late and turned off 30 minutes earlier. Women and children, who have to go to work, school before sunrise, are left unprotected in dark streets.

12:00

Awatef Hayar, Moroccan Minister of Solidarity, Social Integration and the Family, held a Zoom meeting with students about violence against women and girls.

14:40

Women of Halabja attended a panel on women’s participation in politics. “Women should be empowered in politics,” they said

13:40

Emine Şenyaşar, who has demanded justice in front of the Urfa Courthouse for 267 days, has been summoned to testify for the ninth time.

12:26

The Yazidi Free Women's Movement (TAJÊ) and the Yazidi Young Women's Union launched a seven-day tent protest demanding the freedom of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and removing the PKK from the list of terrorist organizations.

12:00

In the village of Jinwar, the land of women and children, women produce medicines from medicinal plants to heal women and children at the Women's Health Center. Hevidar Herekol, the manager of the Women’s Health Center, said natural medical treatments should become widespread.

15:48

Education and Science Workers' Union (Eğitim-Sen) has launched a campaign demanding, “Gender equality courses must be compulsory at schools”. Eğitim-Sen calls on the Turkish Ministry of National Education and Council of Higher Education to meet their demand.

15:00

The Arab Women’s Organization held the 10th meeting of the Supreme Council in Cairo with the participation of women from 13 Arab countries. At the meeting, the women shared their experiences and underlined the important role of women to overcome crises.

13:10

Emine Şenyaşar, whose husband and two sons were killed, and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have held a sit-in protest in front of the Urfa Courthouse to demand justice for their killed relatives for 266 days.

09:54

Yesterday, the Kongra Star, an umbrella organization for all women's organizations in NE Syria, held its annual meeting in Qamishlo, NE Syria with the participation of its members to discuss the works they carried out during the year.