community/life

09:22

Al-Nakheel Association for Women and Children, a Moroccan non-governmental organization, has carried out activities to combat gender-based violence, support and empower women in all spheres of life since it was founded.

10:11

The displaced women of Afrin and the women of Shahba, who are engaged in agriculture and husbandry, say that the blessings of spring this year ease their suffering under siege.

11:01

Fatma Ekmen, who lost her home in the Maraş earthquake, has planted tobacco next to her tent. “We have to earn a living. There is no other way for us,” she said.

11:29

A Yazidi woman fleeing from Afrin occupied by the Turkish state and Turkish-backed factions to Shahba Canton, northeast Syria, told NuJINHA that women staying in Afrin are subjected to many rights violations by the Turkish state and its mercenaries.

09:28

In a tailor shop in Shengal, Sarê Helîqî sews white clothes symbolizing the Yazidis and traditional Kurdish clothes.

12:19

Newroz made a maquette of her family’s burned village although she has never seen it. Her maquette tells the longing of her family and other people living in Makhmur refugee camp for their homeland.

11:52

Women working at the Arî Clinic, opened in Hasakah Canton three years ago, use herbs and plants as medicines in the treatment of various diseases.

11:55

“The Turkish state uses water as a weapon,” said women of Kobanê calling on the international community to stop the violation committed by the Turkish state, which has reduced the water of the Euphrates River.

10:31

Women and girls continue to pay a heavy price in Yemen due to ongoing conflicts and water crisis. The task of fetching water falls largely on women and girls in rural areas of Yemen.

13:55

The displaced people living in Idlib share their tents with people, who lost their homes in the earthquake that struck Turkey, Kurdistan and Syria on February 6.

08:54

The earthquake survivors in Semsûr have established neighborhood commissions to support and be in solidarity with each other. The aim of the commissions is to build a communal life.

09:56

“Nothing can stop women who want to change their reality and to rise up against the patriarchal mentality.”

10:58

The earthquakes that struck Turkey, Kurdistan and Syria, have seriously damaged many schools in Shahba. The Afrin-Shahba Education Committee has set up 57 tent schools for elementary, secondary and high school students.

10:42

North and East Syrian Dêrik People’s Municipality Co-mayor Bêrivan Hisên says the number of women working for the municipality has increased since the revolution in Rojava, adding, “Women municipal workers are more successful than men.

13:42

The main aim of the Zenûbiya Women's Community is to provide education for the whole society, particularly for women. It holds education courses based on women's liberation and the democratic nation project.

11:42

Inhabitants of Makhmur Camp, who had to flee to Southern Kurdistan in the early 90s, are determined to preserve their mother tongue and democratic education system despite the ongoing attacks of the KDP and the Turkish state.

11:45

Aliya Mihemed, Co-chair of Afrin-Shehba Health Organization, announced that more people suffer from diseases due to the siege imposed by the Syrian government on Shahba.

08:35

Although information transferred among midwives and women healers were targeted by witch hunters, they still exist. The story of my grandmother is actually hidden in the stories of many wise women. She treated women and dealt with pregnancy and childbirth

12:06

Many villages in Kobanê are named after women so they are known by the names of women. One of these villages is Boraz. The village has been underwater for years.

12:07

Since the liberation of Deir ez-Zor from ISIS by the YPJ/YPG, women have made their labor more visible.