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14:09

Journalist Selamet Turan was detained in a house raid conducted in Şırnak’s Cizre district.

13:49

In January 2024, 27 women and four children were killed, 17 more women and three children died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey, according to the report released by Jinnews, an all-women news agency based in Amed (Diyarbakır).

13:32

Türkiye’s airstrikes and drone attacks on critical civilian infrastructure are putting livelihoods at risk and severing communities from electricity, medical care, and other essential services, said the Human Rights Watch.

12:48

In addition to difficult living conditions in IDPs camps, widows and divorced women have to work to earn a living while doing household chores and taking care of children.

10:43

Although Morocco guarantees breastfeeding breaks for nursing women at work after returning to work from maternity leave under its Labor Code, some employers do not allow women to breastfeed at work.

09:46

The Israeli army keeps launching airstrikes targeting civilians in neighborhoods of Gaza city and the city of Rafah.

08:04

Journalist Kibriye Evren was taken into custody in a dawn house raid conducted in Istanbul.

14:31

Death toll in Israel’s war on Gaza keeps rising. At least 27,840 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, 2023, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

14:11

Alaheh Razzaghi, member of the Iranian weightlifting team, has won two silver medals at the 2024 Asian Weighting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

13:36

The Shahmaran Center for Physical Rehabilitation and Training Research in Shahba uses herbal medicines to heal people.

12:42

Kurdish political activist Zhila Hojabri has been arrested and transferred to the Juvenile Detention Centre in Sanandaj to serve her three years and eight months prison sentence.

11:38

Yalda Ahmad, an Afghan psychologist and activist, condemned the assassination of Kurdish politician Firyal Silêman Xalid in Kirkuk on January 18 and said, “If we unite, we can be stronger.”

10:27

Women and girls are marginalized in society due to their dark skin color in Yemen; they are subjected to discrimination, exploitation and violence.

09:31

The My Right Initiative started in Alexandria aims to raise awareness of gender-based violence and support survivors of violence against women and girls.

15:04

In Turkey, 158 workers, including seven children and five women, died at workplaces in January 2024, according to the report released by the Laborer Health and Occupational Safety Assembly (İSİG).

14:21

More than 60 university professors have reportedly been dismissed in Iran over the past two years.

12:41

Şerîn Hesen, witnessed the brutal occupation attacks of the Turkish state on Afrin in 2018. Along with thousands of women, she took part in the resistance against the Turkish attacks in Afrin.

08:36

Women and children cannot access health services in Antakya since many hospitals were damaged by devastating earthquakes on February 6, 2023. Patients have to go to other cities to receive treatment.

14:15

107 Palestinians were killed and 143 were injured in the previous 24 hours, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

13:43

“No oppression can extinguish the torch of Kurdish women’s demand for freedom,” said Latifa Ahmadi, Afghan political activist, condemning the assassination of Kurdish politician Firyal Silêman Xalid in Kirkuk on January 18.