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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Kurdish women’ Category
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 »
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Why do so many Iraqi Kurdish women kill themselves?
Posted in Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights Iraq on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hundreds of Iraqi women commit suicide every year, mainly by setting themselves on fire, according to an Iraqi human rights activist. Suaad al-Khazraji said in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah more than 80 suicides were reported in the first half of 2010. She said there were no exact figures on the number Iraqi women committing [...]
Campaign to end FGM in Iraqi-Kurdistan sees success
Posted in Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights, Kurdish women's rights Iraq on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Stop FGM in Kurdistan blog WADI recently did a survey on the rate of FGM in Garmyan region, where the whole campaign against this practice once started in 2004. Since then these teams are visiting dozens of villages, meet the people, show educational films and lobby against FGM. This campaign obviously pays out and is proving [...]
Roj Women advocates for Kurdish women’s health rights at European conference
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights, women's rights Turkey, tagged Kurdish women's health rights on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Roj Women joined the 11th International Women’s Health Meeting, held in Brussels, under the overarching theme of “Women, Health and Human Rights. Let’s Build the Future”. The event brought together numerous advocates of women’s health, feminist activists and academics, as well as funding organisations and other networks working on women’s health from different parts of [...]
