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We are pleased to invite you to the “Stop Stoning, Stop Execution” Conference Date : Saturday, 14 January 2012 Time : 11.00 – 5.00 Venue: Amnesty International UK The Human Rights Action Centre 17-25 New Inn Yard London EC2A 3EA

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Source: European Women’s Lobby During its 49th session, held on 29th July 2011, the Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) adopted a general recommendation on the protection of women’s human rights in conflict and post-conflict situations. “In addition to the widely reported instances of sexual violence and mass rape [...]

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Family and Social Policies Minister: Fatma Şahin Source:BIA Prime Minister Erdoğan announced the cabinet of the 61. government of Turkey.  The cabinet comprises of 25 ministers. According to the new list, there are six new members in the cabinet. Three ministers’ office has been changed. There is only one woman minister in the new cabinet. [...]

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The reading and writing courses by the Women’s Foundation at Maxmur Camp, where Kurdish refugees live, are attracting considerable interest. The middle-aged women participants of the courses, which have produced graduates three times before, ask for the courses to continue and say: “We want to continue our education in Kurdish”. Source: ANF The reading and [...]

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An invitation to Roj Women’s Assembly’s Annual General Meeting   Dear Colleagues & Friends, We are pleased to invite you to  Roj Women’s Assembly’s 8th Annual General Meeting. It will take place at: Date: 08 May 2011 Time: 1pm Venue: Kurdish Community Centre (Fairfax Hall, 11Portland Gardens, N4 5UH) We hope you have chance to participate in [...]

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Büyük kadın buluşması AWID Forumu Planlama Komitesi, Türkiye kadın hareketine güç birliği yapmak, ağlar oluşturmak ve strateji geliştirmek için Nisan 2012’deki foruma katılım çağrısı yaparak, son başvuru tarihinin 27 Mayıs olduğunu açıkladı. Source: ANF Kalkınmada Kadın Hakları Derneği (The Association for Women’s Rights in Development – AWID) 12. Uluslararası Forumunu 2012 Nisan’ında İstanbul’da düzenleyecek. Her kıtadan 2 bini aşkın kadın hakları aktivistinin katılımı beklenen forumun ana teması, “Kadın Hakları ve Adaleti Geliştirmek İçin Ekonomik İktidarı Dönüştürmek” olarak belirlendi.

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Source: Supportkurds.org Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD reports that a Kurdish political activist in the Sittar Women’s Federation, Maryam Mohammed Selo, born in 1980 in Qamishli, was arrested on 17 February 2011 by a security patrol in Damascus. She was arrested and kidnapped in the street and her whereabouts are not now known. Syrian [...]

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Source: Supportkurds.org Syrian Committee for Human Rights  MAD reports that supporters of the Democratic Union Party – PYD, and the organisation of Sittar Women in Damascus have been arrested during February 2011: Farhan Muhammad Bashir, aged 17 from the Qamishli area was arrested on 24 February at 3am. Naima Hassan Latif , aged 30 from [...]

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The Kurdish Students and Studies Organisation has launched a campaign to make Kurdish identity count in Britain. They call upon Kurds to Participate in the UK Census 2011. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) carries out a census to find out more about the people who live in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland and [...]

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Anti-militarism and action against male dominated societies in Kurdish regions Patriarchal values and militarism permeate societies in Kurdish regions of the world, particularly in the South East Turkey where a conflict has been on-going for decades. In the context of an armed-struggle, politically active women have become a target for Turkish security forces. State actors target women [...]

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