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10:17

Women living in rural areas of Taiz, a city in southwestern Yemen, have to walk for kilometers to fetch drinking water.

09:16

“There are thousands of women who look for ways to make a living in Gaza,” said Faten Atallah, one of Gazan women facing the most brutal war. She sells tobacco in the streets of Gaza to earn a living.

08:08

Emel Mathlouthi, Tunisian singer-songwriter and musician, visited Kurdish women in Amed on Wednesday before her performance at Newroz celebrations in the city on March 21.

07:55

At least 31,923 Palestinians have been killed and 74,096 others have been injured in Israel’s attacks on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

07:41

A car bomb attack injured 11 civilians in the Al-Serb neighborhood of Manbij in the evening of Wednesday.

13:55

100 people, including 95 women, who were detained on September 1, 2013 for demanding peace in Istanbul’s Kadıköy, have been acquitted of all charges.

13:28

“From behind prison bars, I extend my warmest congratulations on Nowruz, the Persian New Year, a symbol of renewal, rebirth, growth and hope, with the onset of spring,” said the letter of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi.

13:26

Gambia’s parliament voted Monday to repeal its ban on female genital mutilation (FGM).

12:07

Floods kill three people, including a child, in Erbil and Duhok cities of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

10:36

Elmas Nayif, Co-mayor of the Siba Sheikh Khidir Municipality, calls on all Yazidis to return to Shengal in order to rebuild their homeland together.

10:11

At the Newroz celebrations to be held in seven places of Jazira Canton of North and East Syria, people will demand the physical freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.

08:10

A spring fair has been held in Qorveh, a city in Kurdistan Province of Iran, from March 19 to the first day of April with the participation of women from many cities such as Kermanshah, Hamedan, Divandarreh and Bijar.

13:40

“My Stolen Planet”, a documentary film directed by Iranian filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi, has won the Golden Alexander award at the 26th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

13:38

The “Tearing Walls Down” documentary film telling the life stories of four female politicians - Figen Yüksekdağ, Gültan Kışanak, Aysel Tuğluk and Sibel Yiğitalp- has been released on the website of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

12:39

Women participating in the peaceful protests in Sweida for months react to the pro-government media distorting their protests and call on “real” journalists to make their voices heard.

10:43

There is an increase in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) cases in Idlib, especially among displaced women, due to contaminated water. Women have no access to health services due to financial reasons.

09:30

Writer and poet Fewziya El Mirî, member of the Intellectuals' Union of Raqqa, died in Raqqa on March 17, at the age of 76. She wrote dozens of poems and nine books.

07:44

“We will light the Newroz fire against the international conspiracy,” said Leyla Arzû Îlhan, member of the İştar Assembly in the Makhmour refugee camp, indicating that Newroz is a stand against the government, slavery and the oppression of nature.

13:54

Newroz fire was lit in Bash Qeshlaq, village in the Divandarreh County Iran’s Kurdistan province with the participation of hundreds.

13:32

Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan early on Monday killed at least eight women and children.