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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
Kurdish Community Workers stamped and labelled for Turkish Secret Services by UK
Posted in Kurdish women, Violence against women, tagged Halkevi Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre, Kurdish Community Centre, Turkish Secret Service, UK police on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Hevallo.blogspot Xezal (not real name) on board a flight arriving at a London airport, was reflecting on her holidays and preparing herself to get back to work as an architect in London. A successful Kurdish woman, Xezal had given a lot of her voluntary time to the Kurdish community in London over the last decade. She [...]
Police used tear gas against women
Posted in Gender violence, Kurdish women, Political Activism, Violence against women, women's rights Turkey, tagged cizre, Diyarbakir, Istanbul, The Women Initiative for Peace on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In Diyarbakır and Cizre police brutally assaulted women marching using tear gas and wounded several women. Source: ANF The Women Initiative for Peace has organized a meeting at 6pm in Taksim Square in İstanbul to protest against the government position and the current deadlock in the Kurdish problem. Spokesperson of Initiative, Nebile Irmak Çetin, emphasized that many women, including writers, [...]
Batman’da şüpheli kadın intiharları
Posted in Gender violence, Honour crime victims, Kurdish women, Violence against children, Violence against women, Violence against women Turkey, women's rights Turkey, tagged Batman, Kadin intiharlari, Turkiye'de kadin intiharlari on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Batman’da son 10 günde 8 kadının intihara teşebbüs etmesi gözleri yine kente çevirdi… Source: Demokrat Haber Batman’ın Sason ilçesine bağlı Tekevler köyünde geçtiğimiz hafta 11 yaşındaki Z.E.’nin tarlada bir ağaca asılı bulunması, bu kentteki intihar vakalarını yeniden gündeme getirdi. Yerel basına göre, Batman Bölge Devlet Hastanesi Acil Servisi’ne son 10 gün içerisinde 8 intihara teşebbüs vakası geldi. Bu kişilerin büyük çoğunluğu da kadınlar.
Roj Women publishes Annual Activities Report for 2010/2011
Posted in Kurdish feminism, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights, tagged Annual Activities Report, Roj Women 2010, Roj Women 2011 on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Roj Women’s Association has just published its last Annual Activities Report that maps out the organization’s campaigning and community work from April 2010 until March 2011. Field research in Kurdish regions of the world, community research among the Kurdish Diaspora, lobbying meetings at British, European and United Nations forums, grassroots groups capacity-building, seminars for university [...]
Iraqi Kurdistan bans female genital mutilation
Posted in Gender violence, Kurdish women, Kurdish women's rights, Violence against women, tagged genital mutilation on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Human Rights Watch welcomed a draft law banning female genital mutilation by the regional government in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Family Violence Bill approved June 21 by the autonomous government includes several provisions criminalising the practice in Kurdistan, HRW, said, adding that prevalence of FGM among girls and women in Kurdistan “is at least 40 percent.” [...]
