Roj Women’s Association works to empower Kurdish women who have migrated to London and has a wealth of expertise in community development, gender and ethnic minorities’ issues and service provision Community consultations and many years of experience providing services have evidenced that Kurdish women face multiple barriers to employment. In the latest consultation conducted in Hackney and [...]
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If you are Kurdish or Turkish woman looking for work, we can help you
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Roj Women is recruiting for an Employment Advisor
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Roj Women is now looking at expanding its team to launch new services to support unemployed Kurdish women in London. We are recruiting a one year long position to give advice and guidance on a part-time basis. See Job Description below for more details. Those interested, please submit CV, cover letter and equal opportunities form by [...]
“Stop Stoning, Stop Execution” Conference
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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
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 [...]
