A research delegation set off in 2011 to learn more about the risks and challenges that women human rights defenders endure in Kurdish regions of Turkey. Today Roj Women’s Association is proud to share ‘A woman’s struggle: Using gender lenses to understand the plight of women human rights defenders in Kurdish regions of Turkey‘. We [...]
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New Report: Women Human Rights Defenders in Kurdish Regions of Turkey
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women, Political Activism, Political prisoners, women's rights Turkey on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Kurdish Women’s Office for Peace sends an appeal for support to the Women’s Academy in Amed/Diyarbakir
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For several years now, women’s academies and centres have been established in North Kurdistan in cooperation with women’s organisations and the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). Until now the public outside Turkey has known little about this. The Kurdish Women’s Office for Peace would like to visit the women’s academies and centres with a delegation [...]
Kurdish Women: Resilience In The Face Of Double Discrimination
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Source: AWID, by Kathambi Kinoti Kurds living in Turkey mainly inhabit the East and South-East of Turkey. They are the largest ethnic minority in the country and since the establishment of modern Turkey they have been marginalized and oppressed. This article is part of a series of Friday Files to explore some of the issues and [...]
Solidarity to support women human rights defenders in Turkish Kurdistan
Posted in Gender violence, Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Women’s solidarity work crosses national, ethnic, religious and tribal boundaries and demonstrates what solidarity is. An article by Alexandra Lort Phillips, member of Roj Women’s Association Women’s networks show us that solidarity means understanding, sharing information, developing understandings and agendas, meeting together, communicating, supporting each other’s work, raising awareness, taking action and working in [...]
“Stop Stoning and Execution” conference releases a collective resolution
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's right Iran, Kurdish women's rights Iraq, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A conference held on 14th January in London by Roj Women’s Association, the International Free Women Foundation and the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq focused on stoning and execution in different parts of the world in particular Iran. A collective resolution was born out of it. Speakers raised their concern about gross violations of [...]
Kurdish Activists: Women’s Abuse Under-Reported
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights Iraq, Violence against women on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dashty (right) a Kurdish woman who was subjected to female genital mutilation at the age of 12. Source: Rudaw Nearly 4,000 cases of violence were recorded in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2011 including 720 cases of systematic torture, the government reported last week, but women’s activists say the numbers are severely under-reported. The government registered 3,766 [...]
Iraqi voices: For women, freedoms under fire
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women's rights Iraq, Violence against women, tagged US withdrawal Iraq, Yanar Mohammed on December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Photojournalist Kael Alford spent 10 months covering the invasion of Iraq and its immediate aftermath in 2003-2004. She returned this summer to see what has and hasn’t changed as the U.S. prepared to withdraw its troops. Source: Photoblog When I first met Yanar Mohammed in 2003, she was holding a megaphone and leading a women’s [...]
“Opening and Backsliding at the same Time”
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey, tagged Ann-Margarethe Livh, President of the Stockholm Equality Commission, Swedish Left Party on December 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ann-Margarethe Livh from the Swedish Left Party said in interview that women in Turkey knew how to focus their struggle. “Even if most of these women are in jail because of the KCK trial, they will not give up”. Source:BIA Livh, President of the Stockholm Equality Commission, came to Diyarbakır to observe the KCK trial that was heard [...]
Panel on feminicides in South East Turkey on Sunday 20th November
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Roj Women is pleased to host a panel with speakers from Utamara (Germany) and Gik-der (UK), both active in the struggle to challenge feminicide and violence against women, including women human rights defenders, in Turkey. Activists from Utamara and Gik-der will share their insights on feminicides and the challenges women face in South East Turkey and [...]
Roj Women joined pan-European efforts to improve EU’s external and internal policies on VAW
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
‘We all have the right to live free from violence, and women face so many forms of violence. We just have to end it, and we know the EU has the means to do so.’ With these words Sirpa Pietikäinen, Member of the house (EPP/FI), opened the Roundtable in the European Parliament organised yesterday by [...]
