It was evening we barely escaped. Like the rain falling we could not stop. We were a train of tears as we were walking there like a winding trail of smoke a village climbing a mountain. We were wet, were …
Posted in Culture, Discrimination, Executions, Kurdistan, Political Prisoners, Turkey, Women | Tagged Kurdish rights, Women's day | Comments Off on Remembering Leyla, Fatma, Asya, Zara – remembering Kurdish womenZozan Yasar, a 29-year-old Kurdish journalist residing in the UK, has been charged by Turkey with disseminating terrorist propaganda. The Turkish Prosecution Services have raised charges against Ms. Yasar, alleging that she has been doing propaganda on behalf of the …
Posted in Activism, Discrimination, Free speech, Journalists, Language, Suppression, Turkey, Women | Tagged Free Speech, Journalism, Kurdish rights, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Comments Off on Turkey: 29-year-old Kurdish journalist charged with terrorist propagandaKurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian continues to be denied sufficient medical treatment, writes Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) who has spoken to Ms. Jalalian’s family. Zeynab Jalalian is a Kurdish woman in the beginning of her thirties who was …
Posted in Activism, Call to Actions, Extrajudicial Punishment, Health, Iran, Political Prisoners, Women | Tagged Human Rights, Iran, Jalalian, Kurdish rights | Comments Off on Call to Action: Kurdish political prisoner denied medical aid in IranZara Mohammedi, a 27-year-old Kurdish teacher, was arrested on May 23rd, 2019 by Iranian authorities for teaching Kurdish children to speak and read in their mother tongue. She was arrested alongside two other teachers, Idris Menbari and Rebwar Menbari; they …
Posted in Iran, Language, Political Prisoners, Women | Tagged Human Rights, Iran, Kurdish rights | Comments Off on Kurdish teacher detained by Iran: Freedom for Zara MohammediThree Kurdish rights campaigners affiliated with the pro-minority and pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) were on Monday night killed in Silopi, a district in the Şirnak Province in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) when Turkish armed forces who have laid siege …
Posted in Activism, Call to Actions, Discrimination, Displacements, Executions, Free speech, Journalists, Kurdistan, Media, Protests, Terror, Torture, Turkey, Urgent, Violence, Women | Tagged Kurdish rights, Kurdistan, PKK, Turkey, Violence, women | Comments Off on Three Kurdish Politicians Killed by Turkish Armed ForcesAccording to Evrensel Media, the Women’s Commission of Kobane Canton, one of three cantons that make up the Rojava self-rule, has passed new regulations that ban underage marriages, polygamy and exchange of brides within the family. Zêrîn Kutay and Rabîa …
Posted in Kurdistan, Syria, Women | Tagged Kobane, Rights, Rojava, Syria, women | Comments Off on Kobane Canton Bans Polygamy, Underage MarriageOne day they are terrorists, the next day they are femme fatales fighting Islamic State (Daesh). The discussion of whether Kurdish female fighters are the first, the second or something third is a …
Posted in Videos, Women, Youth | Tagged Helly Luv, IS, Kurdish female fighters, Kurdistan | Comments Off on Lipstick RevolutionToday, people are celebrating International Women’s Day. To some it is a day to celebrate women like Mother’s Day but to others it is a day to mark women’s past, present and future struggle to achieve empowerment and equality with …
Posted in Activism, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, Women | Tagged International Women's Day, Iraq, KRG, Kurdish women, Kurdistan, women, Yezidi | Comments Off on Celebrating Kurdish Women: ‘Today, They Rewrite Their Own History’