community/life
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Sedaqa aims to provide work friendly environment for working women
Sahar Aloul, a member of Sedaqa advocating women’s economic rights organization in Jordan, says that the organization aims to provide a work friendly environment for working women.
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First female pharmacy professor in Kurdistan Region: Struggle for your dreams
Tavge Ehmed, first female professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the Kurdistan Region, says that women should struggle to realize their dreams.
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Important role of mothers in Rojava Revolution
Çınar Salih, a mother who has been supporting the fighters since the beginning of the Rojava Revolution and lost her two sons in the fight ISIS, says she will continue to struggle.
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Şemsa, whose son was killed by ISIS: We will not allow ISIS to return
Şemsa El-Yusif, whose son was killed in Manbij by ISIS in 2014, said, “Since we witnessed the brutality of ISIS, we will not allow ISIS to return to our region under the guise of the Turkish state.”
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Marital rape: Violence against women’s body and soul
“Material rape” is a form of violence against women, which puts women’s health, families and society in danger and causes irreparable damages. Bahar is one of the thousand women who experienced this violence and shares her life story with us.
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Ninhursag Center treats diseases by using natural methods
Several women established a health center named “Ninhursag” in NE Syria’s Qamishlo city. The center director Şêrîn Welat said that their aim is to promote herbal medicine in order to make their people trust in their own strength.
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Role of campaigns in abolition of retaliation punishment
Maryam Sahrai, sister of death-sentenced prisoner Bakhtiar Sahrai, said, “Society can help reduce disruptive behaviors by using new paths and approaches, of course by cooperation with people not by using force against them.”
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Widows in Idlib face social pressures
Psychologist Safaa El-Saghir said that women, who lost their spouses in Idlib, have faced social pressures. “Awareness-raising activities should be carried out to empower widows,” she added.
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Tawasul Center works to rehabilitate autistic children, integrate them into society
Hind Al-Bashari, the director of the Tawasul Center for Autism, says the center works to rehabilitate the children with autism spectrum disorders.
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Lack of housing, maximum pressure on renters in Iran
While housing is one of the basic human needs, the Iran people do not benefit from such a right and have to cope with increasing prices of rents and mortgage of rental houses, and this situation has caused more and more pressure on the low-income classes
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Women of Hakkari: We want to live free in our villages
Many highlands of Hakkari are prohibited for civilians due to the “Special Security Zone” declared in many areas of the city. Women, who have been prohibited to enter highlands for 20 years, say they want to live free in the lands of their ancestors.
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Kongra Star organizes course for men to change patriarchal mentality
Afrin Region Kongra Star organized a course for men in order to change the patriarchal mentality.
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Journey from France to Rojava
Dersîm Mizgîn was born and grew up in France but she went to Rojava to learn more about the revolution. Now, she is a member of the YPJ and defends North and East Syria.
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“Safe Spaces for Women” project started for women in Gaza
The Culture and Free Thought Association has started a project called, “Safe Spaces for Women” to protect and empower women and girls and encourage their social participation.
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She returns to her burned village as shepherd after years
Mensucat Öztürk rebuilt her house in her village, which was burned in 1993, but she cannot stay in her house in winter due to the lack of electricity and water. She earns a living by working as a shepherd on the highlands of Mount Andok.
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She collects straws for her animals despite burning sun
Asiya El-Semak collects straws for her animals despite the burning sun due to high hay prices.
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“Being disabled does not prevent having a job”
Xensa Mecid Heme Murad lost one of her legs when she was four years old but she never gives up struggling and she now works in a flower garden in Halabja.
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Nigar Raşid: The Kurdistan Region has no system protecting women
Speaking about the increase in femicide cases and suspicious women's deaths in the Kurdistan Region, Nigar Raşid criticized the lack of women’s shelters and said that the Kurdistan Region has no system protecting women.
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She turns her tent into school for children
25-year-old Reşa El Burhan has turned her tent into a school for children living in the Atma refugee camp located in Idlib. The children learn how to write and read in this tent.
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Women of Gozeliyê village: “The international community should take action to stop Turkish attacks”
Helîma Ewad, one of the women living in Tall Tamr’s Gozeliyê village, reacted to the ongoing Turkish attacks on their village and called on the international community to take action in order to stop the attacks.