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11:30

Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has been banned from seeing his lawyers for six months.

10:39

Reacting to Israel’s attacks targeting women and children in Gaza, Egyptian women call for international solidarity for the people of Gaza.

09:18

Women of Afrin and Shahba express their support to the international campaign demanding the freedom for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and call on all Kurdish people, political parties and politicians to unite.

08:46

Although Tunisia achieved a historic step by passing its first national law to combat violence against women in 2017, the cases of femicide keep rising in the country because the law has not been effectively implemented.

10:45

The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP) Women’s Council will kick off its activities against gender-based violence in front of Sincan Prison to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

10:18

Activist Gashaw Abdulqadir says that the survivors of violence staying in women’s shelters in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq are subjected to violence and sent back home.

09:45

Human Rights Association (IHD) Semsûr Branch Co-chair Dilan Güler pointed to the rights violations faced by earthquake survivors and said, “IHD works on the ground to determine rights violations.”

08:26

“We, as the mothers of martyrs, demand the killers of our children, including Erdoğan, be held accountable in international court,” said Halime Hüseyin, mother of Zeynep Saroxan who was killed in a Turkish drone attack.

14:14

Women from Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, Tebqa and Manbij came together at a workshop held in Raqqa to discuss many issues such as women, history and culture.

13:55

“More awareness-raising activities should be carried out to prevent early marriages,” said sociologist Şox Ismail, stressing that early marriage and forced marriage are one of the reasons for the increase in violence against women.

13:18

Zahra Saeedianjoo, sister of Milad Saeedianjoo, one of the victims of the recent nationwide protests in Izeh, was arrested on Tuesday.

13:16

One of the three journalists, who were taken into custody in Iran, has been sent to prison, two have been taken to an undisclosed location.

15:06

NuJINHA reporter Naghem Karajeh was injured in leg and head when an Israeli airstrike hit her house in the Shujaya neighborhood of Gaza on Sunday.

14:59

Hourieh Mohseni, a Baha'i citizen living in Mashhad, was summoned to the Office of the Prosecutor of the Islamic Revolution of Mashhad on Saturday. She was released on bail of three million Iranian tomans.

14:52

An initiative has been launched by young people in Lebanon to support the displaced people in Gaza and Southern Lebanon.

11:38

Psychologist Papula Abdullah draws attention to cyber violence, a form of violence against women and emphasizes that awareness-raising activities can eliminate cyber violence against women.

11:33

The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) Women’s Council has launched a campaign called, “No to femicide: Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

08:51

Speaking about the physical, emotional, and social effects of the Feb 6 earthquakes on the people, Psychologist Fadime Temel emphasized the importance of social solidarity for quake survivors to heal from trauma experienced by them.

14:26

The members of the Free Women’s Movement (Kurdish: Tevgera Jinên Azad-TJA) protested the release of specialist sergeant, Eyüp K., who sexually assaulted four children in Mardin’s Nusaybin district.

13:47

Noushin Jafari, one of the members of the “Iranian Mothers for Justice”, was arrested and taken to the prosecutor’s office while attempting to visit Narges Mohammadi at hospital on Wednesday.