Shengal (Sinjar)- The Yazidi Free Women's Movement (Kurdish: Tevgera Azadiya Jinên Êzîdî-TAJÊ) held march in Shengal on Monday to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women.

Yazidi and Arab women participating in the march protested all forms of violence against women. The women carried posters of women, who were killed by the male-state violence, the KDP, ISIS and the Turkish state, chanting slogans such as “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî”, “Long live women’s resistance” and “Long live the resistance of Shengal”.

After the march, Neam Bedel, a member of the TAJÊ, made a speech, calling on all women to rise up against male-state violence. “Women should rise up against all forms of violence and oppression. Women are killed in Türkiye, Iran, Iraq and Kurdistan. We say ‘enough’ to violence against women.”

‘Yazidi women must not accept torture and violence anymore’

Neam Bedel also called on Yazidi women not to “accept violence and torture against them anymore. Our society cannot be free unless women are free. We say ‘enough’ to femicide. As leader Apo says, gender equality is a must for our society. We are greeting all women, including Warisha Moradi, resisting in Iran’s prisons. We will win by chanting the Jin, Jiyan, Azadî slogan.”