labor/economy

12:20

Schools in Lebanon have been closed for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This year, the schools will reopen in the country but parents and students face high prices of school supplies as they are preparing for the new school year.

09:28

Women of Sharazoor come together before sunrise to pick fruits and vegetables. “We are exploited but we have to work in order not to depend on others,” say women, who draw attention to the massacres that took place during the Saddam Hussein era and the current inadequate policies.

09:30

At the end of summer, the villagers begin to go to their vineyards but this year they are complaining about the heat damage on grapes. After picking grapes, they make grape molasses, churchkhela, or grape juice.

12:46

Xezala Al Tormi is one of the thousands of people forcibly displaced from their town Tawergha. She lives in the Benghazi city of Libya as a migrant and makes a living by baking tandoor bread.

12:11

People, who have difficulty in meeting their needs due to the high price of electricity, water, natural gas, food, and clothing, have faced more difficulties due to tax increases. Women, who work informally below the minimum wage in a brick factory located in Amed, have no other alternative but to keep working. The women try to forget the difficulties they have faced with friendship.

12:24

Citizens in Amed say they cannot make a living anymore due to the increasingly high prices of food and bills. Some cannot pay their rent, some are thinking about how to enroll their children in school, and some haven’t taken any fruit to their house for two years. We spoke to female shopkeepers and consumers, who say the economic crisis keeps them awake at night.

12:00

Preparation for winter of women in Amed continues. The women have worked collectively to make red pepper and tomato paste for winter.

13:04

Women still keep the culture of the distaff, a traditional tool used in spinning thread, alive. 61-year-old Rifa Eli Hesen is one of these women. She spoke to our news agency about the benefits of the wool-filled quilts she made for human health.

11:25

After graduating from university, women face unemployment in Morocco. Most female university graduates cannot find work in their field so they work in other fields. Khadija Al-Ghazi, professor at Faculty of Law in Fes city of Morocco, spoke to NuJinha about the reasons why women cannot find a job in Morocco. “Women should be empowered,” she said.

14:49

Dina Abu Shaaban, who opened a gift store named, “مناسبات (Occasions)” in Gaza, wants to expand her team. “Women should learn everything about the market well before starting a project,” Dina Abu Shaaban said.

09:35

Displaced women of Afrin try to overcome the economic difficulties due to the embargo by producing. Women taking part in the agriculture project initiated by the Women's Economy Management on seven hectares say that they are happy to have their economic freedom as well as to produce.

12:15

Firar Neslihan Karadeniz, who has run a grocery store in the Sur district of Amed for 15 years, says that their sales have decreased due to the economic crisis and that they cannot make profits compared to the past. “People and artisans resist price hikes,” she said.

12:51

In Syria, more than nine million citizens try to maintain their lives without meeting the nutrient requirements essential for health. The women of Idlib are now brooding about what they will eat in winter.

10:00

Women of NE Syria discussed the reflection of the economic crisis and chaos in the world on women of the Autonomous Administration. We spoke to Derya Remezan, a member of the Women's Commission in the Cizre Region about the meeting.

10:05

In mid-August, women in Amed begin to prepare for winter. They dry vegetables such as peppers, eggplants, okras. They hang vegetables tied together in bunches to dry them on their balcony.

14:30

Bedia Şimay and Bedriye Tırak are the owners of a handicraft shop located in the Sur district of Amed. Two sisters sell the crafts made by women living in provinces such as Batman, Mardin, and Siirt in their shop to earn a livelihood. “We have provided employment opportunities for hundreds of women until now,” Bedia Şimay said.

16:32

33-year-old Basma Mehmud earns a livelihood by making Amigurumi toys in Gaza. She wants to have a workshop to teach how to make Amigurumi toys and a shop to sell her toys.

13:40

Nisreen Al-Ashkar was the first female member of the Union of Opticians and Optometrists, which was founded in 1951. She is now the president of the union. Nisreen Al-Ashkar says women can do anything “as long as they believe in themselves.”

10:22

Yemen has suffered from an economic crisis for 10 years and the country’s economic crisis has been worsening day by day. Many women cannot realize their projects due to the increasing prices. The women cannot earn a livelihood for their families anymore.

15:23

146 workers, including 13 female workers, lost their lives at workplaces across Turkey in July 2021, according to a report released by the Laborer Health and Occupational Safety Assembly (İSİG).