labor/economy

14:10

“Women should open up space to get their economic freedom and to develop themselves,” says 38-year-old Gulistan Xelef, who makes a living by tailoring.

16:14

The Research Center of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK-AR) has released its “Unemployment and Employment Outlook Report”. The rate of unemployment of women in Turkey is 29.3 percent; one in three young women is unemployed, according to the report.

11:54

Products made of reeds have been used for decoration for years. Women of Deir ez-Zur make handcrafted reed products for a living.

13:40

Migrant women in Northern Syria try to make a living by working in agriculture.

10:00

Reyhan Kırık makes a living by growing tobacco. After drying tobacco leaves in the sun, she will sell them.

12:31

Tunisian women say they face discrimination and harassment at the workplace. Men take more annual leave than women, men are paid more than women, and laws only remain on paper.

12:49

A group of women came together and opened a restaurant called “Şajin” in Halabja. The women serve homemade dessert and food at the restaurant.

15:37

Pêncewîn Autumn Festival kicks off in the Sharezûr town of Sulaymaniyah. Local products, handicrafts, and local dishes are exhibited at the festival. NuJINHA team attended the festival and spoke to two sisters about their natural products.

09:18

Three women bake local bread in their “Tandoor House they opened in Çêwlig to have economic freedom. The Tandoor House become the hope for women living in the city and the people of the city prefer to buy bread made by these three women. Zehra Ataoğlu is one of three women and she tells us how they decided to open their bakery.

15:41

“Nanê Heft Tewkê” is one of the different types of Kurdish bread. Nanê Heft Tewkê can be translated into English as “Seven layers bread”. Ferida Reşit living in Qamishlo told us how this bread is healthy and how she bakes it.

14:35

“I resisted patriarchal mentality,” says Zikra Al-Saedani, who started her chicken farm even if male members of her family objected to her. She aims to expand her business now and calls on women to put their projects into practice.

11:56

Bread baked in a clay oven is called tandoori bread. Baking tandoori bread has a long history and has been preferred by people for its taste. However, baking tandoori bread is not a choice but a must for the women living in the refugee camps of Idlib due to the poverty they face.

12:20

Schools in Lebanon have been closed for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This year, the schools will reopen in the country but parents and students face high prices of school supplies as they are preparing for the new school year.

09:28

Women of Sharazoor come together before sunrise to pick fruits and vegetables. “We are exploited but we have to work in order not to depend on others,” say women, who draw attention to the massacres that took place during the Saddam Hussein era and the current inadequate policies.

09:30

At the end of summer, the villagers begin to go to their vineyards but this year they are complaining about the heat damage on grapes. After picking grapes, they make grape molasses, churchkhela, or grape juice.

12:46

Xezala Al Tormi is one of the thousands of people forcibly displaced from their town Tawergha. She lives in the Benghazi city of Libya as a migrant and makes a living by baking tandoor bread.

12:11

People, who have difficulty in meeting their needs due to the high price of electricity, water, natural gas, food, and clothing, have faced more difficulties due to tax increases. Women, who work informally below the minimum wage in a brick factory located in Amed, have no other alternative but to keep working. The women try to forget the difficulties they have faced with friendship.

12:24

Citizens in Amed say they cannot make a living anymore due to the increasingly high prices of food and bills. Some cannot pay their rent, some are thinking about how to enroll their children in school, and some haven’t taken any fruit to their house for two years. We spoke to female shopkeepers and consumers, who say the economic crisis keeps them awake at night.

12:00

Preparation for winter of women in Amed continues. The women have worked collectively to make red pepper and tomato paste for winter.

13:04

Women still keep the culture of the distaff, a traditional tool used in spinning thread, alive. 61-year-old Rifa Eli Hesen is one of these women. She spoke to our news agency about the benefits of the wool-filled quilts she made for human health.