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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“Stop Stoning, Stop Execution” Conference
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
UN CEDAW Committee adopts General Recommendation on the protection of women’s human rights in conflict and post-conflict situations
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CEDAW, Kurdish women and conflict, women in conflict on September 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Roj Women’s Assembly’s Annual General Meeting
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Roj Women’s Assembly’s Annual General Meeting on May 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Kalkınmada Kadın Hakları Derneği (The Association for Women’s Rights in Development – AWID) 12. Uluslararası Forumu 2012 Nisan
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AWID, Kalkınmada Kadın Hakları Derneği, The Association for Women’s Rights in Development on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Sittar Women’s Federation activist arrested
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Campaign of arrests against Kurdish women in Syria
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
A campaign to make Kurdish identity count in Britain
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Kurdish Students and Studies Organisation on March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Seminars on the International Women’s day by Roj Women’s Association in partnership with Kurdish Society at SOAS
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
