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09:25

In Urmia and its rural areas, where Kurds live, students drop out of school due to the policies of the government. This paves the way for early marriages.

15:19

Nasrin Shakarami, mother of Nika Shakarami, one of the victims of the nationwide protests of 2022, has announced that all roads leading to her daughter’s grave have been blocked.

14:55

On the 29th day of the protest for Justice at the Turkish Parliament, Emine Şenyaşar was blocked from entering the building, where the office of the DEM Party Parliamentary Group is located.

14:24

People in Gaza are only eating one meal every other day, as 83 percent of required food aid does not make it into the besieged enclave due to Israel’s blockade, 15 organizations said on Wednesday.

13:51

One woman was arrested in Iran’s Bushehr city for wearing an inappropriate dress, the police chief of Bushehr announced on Thursday.

12:50

The winners of the 31st Musa Anter and Free Press Martyrs Journalism Awards have been announced. This year’s Honorary Award is given to journalist Pakhshan Azizi, who was sentenced to death by Iran.

11:02

Members of Coalition 188, a group of NGOs, politicians and activists opposed to amendments in the Iraqi Personal Status Law No. 188, say the amendments would “endanger women’s rights and democracy” if passed.

09:23

The Turkish state carried out at least 14 attacks on the Makhmour refugee camp in the last five years, with the cooperation of the KDP and the Iraqi government.

14:39

Sudanese journalist Madiha Abdalla condemns the death sentences imposed by Iran on labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi and journalist Pakhshan Azizi in Iran and expresses her solidarity with them.

13:21

Parisa Salehi, an economics reporter for the state-run financial newspaper Donya-e-Eqtesad, has been released from prison six days before the end of her prison sentence.

10:27

“We will never accept surrender despite all the difficulties,” said the displaced women of Afrin, who are subjected to the ongoing Turkish attacks and the siege imposed on Shahba by the Syrian government.

14:44

“We will turn the 21st century into a century of women’s freedom,” said the statement released by the Southern Kurdistan Women's Front to mark the second anniversary of the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” uprising.

14:42

At least 41,252 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

13:45

“Although the Makhmour refugee camp is under the protection of the United Nations and the Iraqi government, it is attacked by the Turkish state every day,” said Qîmet Kilinç.

12:51

Gaza’s health ministry has released the names of 34,344 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip from October 7, 2023 to August 31, 2024. 710 infants are among them.

11:56

Journalist Medine Mamedoğlu has been summoned to testify for reporting on the fire that erupted in an area between Diyarbakır’s Çınar district and Mardin’s Mazıdağı district on June 20,2024.

11:24

“I am not afraid of Israel’s threats,” said Lebanese journalist Amal Khalili, stressing that she would continue to report the war crimes committed by Israel despite receiving Israeli death threats

15:22

At least 40 civilians were killed in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a village in central Sudan on Sunday, a local resistance committee in Abu Gouta said on Monday.

15:10

“The courage of Afghan women is a source of inspiration,” Malala Yousafzai, a women’s rights activist and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, said in a social media post on Sunday.

14:20

On the second anniversary of the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” uprising, the YPJ released a written statement calling on Kurdish women and all women in the Middle East to unite around the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî” philosophy and to expand the revolution for freedom.