community/life

08:00

Kudret Fendik is only one of the Kurdish women, who have faced war, displacement and death. She never bows down before anyone and she has raised her nine children alone.

13:08

According to a study conducted in Pakistan on the gender of drivers, 80 percent of drivers are men. 17-year-old Khadija El Kubra wears men’s clothes to take her siblings to school safely every day.

09:34

191 people lost their lives and 1,059 people were injured in July due to conflicts in Afghanistan, according to the report released by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). The report also says that 78, 911 families were forcibly displaced in July.

09:47

Before the last Israeli attack on Gaza, Palestinians bought Israeli products and asked people, “Do you know this is an Israeli product?” to boycott Israeli products after Baraa Lavi and a group of people launched a boycott Israel campaign. Gaza is the second place which buys the products of Israel the most after the USA and the people of Gaza slowly learn that.

12:39

ISIS attacked Shengal on August 3, 2014, and atrociously killed children, elders, women, and men in front of everyone. ISIS abducted thousands of women and children and sold them in slave markets. Sibalı Fexriye Kemal was just 12 years old when ISIS attacked Êzidîs. She remembers everything as if it happened only yesterday; running people, fired bullets, killed people, hunger, thirst, extreme heat… “Yes, Daesh took my childhood, my friends, and most importantly my mother from me. Daesh left genocide in my memory that I will never forget through all my life. Êzidî children and all children in the world should live freely from now on. Don’t take childhood from the children…”

09:38

Rosa Women’s Association member drew attention to suspicious deaths of women disguised as “suicide”, “The judiciary system has a great responsibility to reveal suspicious deaths of women; however, the courts rule these deaths as “suicide” and close these cases. The system stands with men, not with women.”

10:35

Women continue to work to stop increasing femicides in Hasekê. Members of the Kongreye Star Coordination in Hasekê will meet the leaders of the tribes and communities to end femicides in the city.

09:45

War itself is plunder. It brings its plundering culture into the territory where it takes place. While looting and plundering crimes increase in the Syrian city of Idlib, the biggest victims are women; their houses are raided, their workplaces are plundered, and some of them are kidnapped, robbed, and killed. The perpetrators of these crimes haven’t been arrested yet.

10:50

Women of Shengal call on all countries to recognize the genocide against Êzidîs so that what Êzidî people faced seven years ago will not be forgotten. Êzidî Women's Freedom Movement (Tevgera Azadiya Jinên Êzidî /TAJÊ) members welcome the recognition of the Êzidî genocide by Belgium parliament and Dutch parliament.

15:21

“I can't forget what we faced until I die. Everything was so painful... I cannot forget! How can I forget what happened especially in Siba?” said Dayê (Mother) Esmer, who remembers everything happened in Shengal when ISIS attacked it seven years ago as if it happened only yesterday.

12:00

TitulaARTS project initiated in cooperation with the Mesopotamia Migration Monitoring and Research Association and the Association of Middle East Cinema Academy has held workshops for refugee women and children. Felek Fidan, the assistant of the project, stated that their aim is to heal the great marks left by the war on women with the workshops.

15:38

A 13-year-old girl named İda El Seido was stoned to death by her family male members in Hasekê (Al-Hasakah) city of NE Syria. Women have protested the brutal killing of the girl for days and demanded the killers of the girl be punished in the most severe way. Today the women living in the cities of NE Syria will take to the streets again to protest the murder of İda El Seido

12:57

Not years ago… Deniz Poyraz’s mother said, “One Deniz is gone but thousands like her will be born” after her daughter was killed in the attack on the HDP office in Izmir on June 17. The women, who hear the voice of Deniz Poyraz’s mother, honor the memory of Deniz Poyraz by naming their academy after her.

16:56

Tunisian Association of Democratic Women condemned the assault on Member of Parliament Abeer Moussa in parliament.

11:47

Many people took to the streets of Ramallah to protest the killing of Palestinian activist Nizar Banat in custody. Police attacks on protesters and journalists covering the protests sparks criticism. As the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expects an immediate “apology” from the Palestinian government, the Women’s Organization to End Violence Against Women in Palestine demands the perpetrators of violence be brought to justice.

16:17

Afghan Women's News Agency Editor-in-Chief Humira Saqib pointed out that human rights activists and women begin to be targeted after the USA’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. “Women don’t leave their spaces no matter where they are, they take a brave stance in every part of life,” she said.

14:28

Kongreya Star has organized a 20-day workshop for men in Aleppo. 19 men have participated in the workshop and they will discuss many issues, including women’s history and social gender. “Women and men should know each other to build a free society. Only in this way can we achieve equality and justice,” said Osman Piling, one of the 19 men.

10:07

Dilara Gün has been working as a chess coach for four years. She began to teach her sister how to play chess. Over time, her mother became interested in chess while taking Dilara and her sister to the chess courses. Now her mother is 43 years old and she will be a chess coach. “Your age is definitely not a criterion for learning chess or even being a chess coach!” Dilara said.

11:59

“Every bullet is fired against women. Women are targeted again in the person of Deniz Poyraz.”

08:20

A Houthi militia court in Sana’a has issued a death sentence against activist Zaafaran Zayed and her husband.