labor/economy

16:32

33-year-old Basma Mehmud earns a livelihood by making Amigurumi toys in Gaza. She wants to have a workshop to teach how to make Amigurumi toys and a shop to sell her toys.

13:40

Nisreen Al-Ashkar was the first female member of the Union of Opticians and Optometrists, which was founded in 1951. She is now the president of the union. Nisreen Al-Ashkar says women can do anything “as long as they believe in themselves.”

10:22

Yemen has suffered from an economic crisis for 10 years and the country’s economic crisis has been worsening day by day. Many women cannot realize their projects due to the increasing prices. The women cannot earn a livelihood for their families anymore.

15:23

146 workers, including 13 female workers, lost their lives at workplaces across Turkey in July 2021, according to a report released by the Laborer Health and Occupational Safety Assembly (İSİG).

09:54

Syrian Free Women's Foundation works for women in every part of life. The foundation has recently begun to work for the education of women and children.

11:40

A team of Gaza women has produced cosmetics and beauty products from local herbs. They have produced many products such as shampoo and moisturizer in a factory in Gaza to sell in stores and pharmacies.

08:54

Harvest of vegetables growing in Hevsel Gardens, which became a World Heritage Site in 2015 started. Women have harvested vegetables such as basil, tomato, mint, and lettuce. They have worked until the evening to prepare the vegetables for sale.

09:50

Zeynep Akıl, who preserved the stone mill inherited from her grandmother, spends the winter with the bulgur she mills in summer at the mill. She now teaches her grandchildren how to mill the wheat at the mill.

15:13

The unemployment rate in Saudi Arabia decreased to 11.7% in the first quarter compared to 12.6% in the fourth quarter according to data from the General Authority for Statistics. In the first quarter, male unemployment increased slightly to 7.2%, while among women the rate fell to 21.2%.

11:08

In Kurdistan Region, women’s participation in the labor force is less than 11 percent. Even if women are university graduates, they have difficulties finding a job so they try to find a way to economically stand on their own legs. Meryem Kerim, who has a bachelor's degree, is one of these women.

13:11

Women of Gever bake lavash (thin bread) in underground tandoors to keep this tradition alive. The women spend hours baking lavash.

13:36

Women continue to struggle in every part of working life. In Lebanon, engineer women struggled against the patriarchal mentality and won a great victory in the Engineers' Union elections, which had been postponed six times. “There will not be favoritism, sexist attitudes, and corruption in our union anymore,” engineer Maryam Nammour said, “As unionized women, we will carry the light we found everywhere we go.”

10:21

15-year-old Gaza blockage continues to negatively affect the region, with a population of more than 2 million. The average unemployment rate is about 50 percent, according to the UN, even working people can no longer make a living due to economic crisis. The ongoing land, air, and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip has affected mostly women and children. The ongoing economic crisis has deepened due to the coronavirus pandemic.

10:54

International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No.190, the first international treaty to recognize the right of everyone to a world of work free from violence and harassment, including gender-based violence and harassment, came into force on 25 June 2021. Ebru Özberk Anlı, ILO’s Senior Programme Officer in Turkey, talked about why Turkey should ratify the convention.

12:51

Women have produced olive oil soap in Idlib for thousands of years. For women living in the city, producing olive oil soap has become a cultural ritual. 60-year-old Suheyla El Tabel is one of the representatives of this culture. “We want to protect our culture. We earn a livelihood by olive oil soaps. We use them to clean our house and for our personal hygiene,” Suheyla El Tabel said.

09:44

Hot weather begins and the Covid-19 pandemic has been slowed down a little bit. It is time for cold drinks and ice cream. If you have a chance to go to Halabja, you should visit the cold drink shop of Sîdar. All products, including fruit ice cream and cold drinks, she sells in her shop are organic.

10:24

Berivan Yardımcı is a beekeeper in the Yüksekova district of Hakkari province. She takes care of her beehives for four seasons; she makes a living by selling honey she collects from the beehives. She is the only woman doing this job in the city and her aim is to expand her business.

10:24

Ömür Özdemir had a private business with her husband. After getting divorced; she entered a hard life with her daughter İdil. The heavy debt left from the private business caused economic problems for her. She began to sell apricots of her hometown to overcome her economic problems. “Don’t turn back even if an avalanche engulfs your way,” she told women despite her difficult journey.

11:08

Safiya Ereğli has made a living from her grain milling facility she opened 20 years ago in the Suüstü village of Hakkari’s Yüksekova district. Despite her age, she keeps working on graining wheat, chickpeas, and corn and she feels bad when she doesn’t work.

11:47

Female domestic workers are called slaves of this century. They are among those who have been forced to work for peanut and cope with their poverty alone. June 16th is International Domestic Workers Day and we try to explain the working conditions of female domestic workers in this article.