community/life

08:00

Several women established a health center named “Ninhursag” in NE Syria’s Qamishlo city. The center director Şêrîn Welat said that their aim is to promote herbal medicine in order to make their people trust in their own strength.

08:30

Maryam Sahrai, sister of death-sentenced prisoner Bakhtiar Sahrai, said, “Society can help reduce disruptive behaviors by using new paths and approaches, of course by cooperation with people not by using force against them.”

08:24

Psychologist Safaa El-Saghir said that women, who lost their spouses in Idlib, have faced social pressures. “Awareness-raising activities should be carried out to empower widows,” she added.

09:00

Hind Al-Bashari, the director of the Tawasul Center for Autism, says the center works to rehabilitate the children with autism spectrum disorders.

08:14

While housing is one of the basic human needs, the Iran people do not benefit from such a right and have to cope with increasing prices of rents and mortgage of rental houses, and this situation has caused more and more pressure on the low-income classes

07:10

Many highlands of Hakkari are prohibited for civilians due to the “Special Security Zone” declared in many areas of the city. Women, who have been prohibited to enter highlands for 20 years, say they want to live free in the lands of their ancestors.

12:06

Afrin Region Kongra Star organized a course for men in order to change the patriarchal mentality.

10:26

Dersîm Mizgîn was born and grew up in France but she went to Rojava to learn more about the revolution. Now, she is a member of the YPJ and defends North and East Syria.

09:44

The Culture and Free Thought Association has started a project called, “Safe Spaces for Women” to protect and empower women and girls and encourage their social participation.

07:30

Mensucat Öztürk rebuilt her house in her village, which was burned in 1993, but she cannot stay in her house in winter due to the lack of electricity and water. She earns a living by working as a shepherd on the highlands of Mount Andok.

11:00

Asiya El-Semak collects straws for her animals despite the burning sun due to high hay prices.

07:45

Xensa Mecid Heme Murad lost one of her legs when she was four years old but she never gives up struggling and she now works in a flower garden in Halabja.

15:34

Speaking about the increase in femicide cases and suspicious women's deaths in the Kurdistan Region, Nigar Raşid criticized the lack of women’s shelters and said that the Kurdistan Region has no system protecting women.

12:44

25-year-old Reşa El Burhan has turned her tent into a school for children living in the Atma refugee camp located in Idlib. The children learn how to write and read in this tent.

12:06

Helîma Ewad, one of the women living in Tall Tamr’s Gozeliyê village, reacted to the ongoing Turkish attacks on their village and called on the international community to take action in order to stop the attacks.

08:20

“Women should unite against Turkish attacks on Manbij,” said Asya Îsmaîl, one of the women playing an important role in the Rojava Revolution.

11:26

Rîm Cewher is a member of the Asayish forces while her husband is a member of the SDF. Emphasizing that they are both spouses and comrades, Rîm Cewher and Xebat Zirganê dream of a world without war for children.

08:20

Displaced people living in Idlib face many health problems because they cannot access medicine due to economic barriers and they try to get free medicine from health centers.

12:10

For over a century, Egypt has been struggling against female genital mutilation (FGM, a crime causing psychological, cultural, and social ramifications.

09:00

Speaking about the activities of the “Initiative of Women for the Defense of Kurdistan against Occupation”, Pencewîn Elî told us that they will document the war crimes committed by Turkey and send them to the relevant parties.