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 [...]
Celebrate International Women’s Day with us
Posted in Kurdish women, tagged Women's International Day on March 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Everybody is welcome to join for a day of celebrations for Women’s Day on Saturday 10th March. Roj Women will march through Haringey to share our message with members of our community and to invite them to join the women’s struggle. After the march, we will continue celebrating with Kurdish music and dance by Venge [...]
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 [...]
Women of Diyarbakir get behind the wheel
Posted in Kurdish women, Kurdish women's economic rights, women's rights Turkey on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Women lead drive for gender equality in Diyarbakir, south-east Turkey Source: The Guardian Kurdish women in Diyarbakir, where an EU grant has enabled more women to gain licences to drive vehicles. Most of the stories that emerge from Baglar, the largest and poorest district in Diyarbakir, in south-east Turkey, have been reports of violent clashes between [...]
Early marriages and illiteracy still common among women in Kurdish town
Posted in Kurdish women, Kurdish women's economic rights on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A women’s group has found that nearly one-third of girls surveyed in Diyarbakir were married at the age of 15 or younger and 60 percent are illiterate. Source: Rudaw Thirty-one percent of the 400 women respondents in Cizre, a Kurdish city in southeast of Turkey, were married at the age of 15 or younger while [...]
Women violence on the increase in South Kurdistan
Posted in Gender violence, Honour crime victims, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights Iraq, Violence against children, Violence against women, tagged Federal Region of Kurdistan, South Kurdistan on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Suspicious deaths, murders and suicides of women have run high in South Kurdistan, an absolute male dominant territory which doesn’t punish violence against women. Source: ANF The Committee for Struggle against Violence on Women has reported that 1,012 women have set themselves alight in the last three years in South Kurdistan where women live under [...]
