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12:00

The existence of families who want to sell their children for economic reasons in Afghanistan is a shame for humanity. “We sell our children for 4,000 Afghani ($40) to those who can look after them,” An Afghan family posted on social media.

09:15

Çiğdem Ergin (23) allegedly committed suicide by plunging from the third floor of the building where she lived in Van province. After four months in a coma, she regained her consciousness and stated her husband had tried to kill her. Her husband Sinan Ergin faces up to 20 years in prison for “attempting to kill his wife”. Çiğdem Ergin calls on women to be in solidarity with her.

14:00

The Centre for Women's Legal Researches and Consulting (CWLRC) organized an activity yesterday. The CWLRC’s members wearing orange clothes wrote, “We are here to protect you” on the seashore of the Gaza Strip as part of the 16 Days of Activism campaign.

13:50

“We live and resist because resisting for justice is living,” said Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar, who have demanded justice for their killed relatives for 275 days.

13:18

As the period for collective bargaining between the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Istanbul bureau has ended in disagreement, the employees at the BBC's bureau in Istanbul decide to take strike action. “If we don’t reach an agreement, we will go on strike. We will not take a step back,” TGS Secretary-General İlkay Akkaya told NuJINHA.

12:56

Social South Team has launched a campaign on social media in cooperation with Wifaq Association for Women and Child Welfare, Palestinian NGO Forum to Combat Violence Against Women, Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN), and “FADAA” coalition under the hashtag #تعنفهاش (Don’t use violence) to combat violence against women. Haneen Judeh, a member of the South Social Team, told us that two million people supported the campaign on Twitter in a day.

09:55

Yemeni women painted walls to draw attention to gender-based violence as part of the 16 Days of Activism campaign.

14:50

“The phenomenon of violence against girls is still under-reported in Tunisian society and requires specific prevention strategies and programs,” said Moufida Abbasi, the president of the Association of Tunisian Women for Research and Development (AFTURD).

13:00

Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have demanded justice for their killed relatives for 274 days. “Those who destroy justice are doomed to perish. If there is AKP, there is no justice,” the Şenyaşar family said.

12:42

Gazan women have launched an online campaign under the slogan of “Your Safety is Her Safety” to draw attention to online violence against women.

11:30

The Women's Research and Training Centre at Aden University has launched a workshop to empower women and support them in the science world.

08:44

83-year-old prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan, who has been held in prison for 26 years and suffered from many health problems, lost his memory in prison. His daughter Selma Özkan answers all calls with fear. “He should be immediately released from prison. What we face is torture,” she said.

13:34

On the 273rd day of the sit-in protest of the Şenyaşar family demanding justice, Emine Şenyaşar has been reportedly summoned to testify for allegedly “insulting a public official”.

12:50

Women revealed a crime network forcing women into prostitution in Sardasht, a city in Iran. Three members of the network have been arrested while the victims begin to talk about what they faced. The women living in the city launch an online campaign to raise awareness against such networks.

10:40

2021 was an active year for students in Turkey; the resistance of Boğaziçi University students, the protests of students, who had nowhere to stay, the arrests against students, and repression against female students. We spoke to Özlem Damla Arık, a student of Boğaziçi University, about the resistance of the student movement in 2021.

12:26

25 women were killed by men, 21 more died under suspicious circumstances in November, according to the report of the We Will Stop Femicide Platform.

08:30

Latifa Akharbach, the head of the High Authority for Communication (HACA), drew attention to the increasing rates of violence against women and said the root causes of violence against women should be investigated.

13:50

Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have demanded justice for their killed relatives for 269 days.

11:36

Kobanî Women's Council held its annual meeting in Kobanî to discuss the activities and works of the council during the year.

10:15

In 2015, a 24-hour curfew was declared in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. The curfew destroying many neighborhoods of the district and forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes lasted more than three months. “People were deprived of many rights during the curfew. Especially women suffered from trauma. The citizens, who didn’t leave their homes, are recently stuck between drugs and prostitution,” said Gulan Çağın Kaleli, a lawyer of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT).