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		<title>Solidarity to support women human rights defenders in Turkish Kurdistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rojwomen.com&amp;blog=13236854&amp;post=3018&amp;subd=rojwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Stop Stoning and Execution” conference releases a collective resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A conference held on 14th January in London by Roj Women&#8217;s Association, the International Free Women Foundation and the Organization for Women&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rojwomen.com&amp;blog=13236854&amp;post=3011&amp;subd=rojwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdish Activists: Women’s Abuse Under-Reported</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rojwomen.com&amp;blog=13236854&amp;post=3008&amp;subd=rojwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women of Diyarbakir get behind the wheel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rojwomen.com&amp;blog=13236854&amp;post=3004&amp;subd=rojwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Stop Stoning, Stop Execution” Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 The aim of the conference is to raise awareness on this vital topic and to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rojwomen.com&amp;blog=13236854&amp;post=2990&amp;subd=rojwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi voices: For women, freedoms under fire</title>
		<link>http://rojwomen.com/2011/12/28/iraqi-voices-for-women-freedoms-under-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photojournalist Kael Alford spent 10 months covering the invasion of Iraq and its immediate aftermath in 2003-2004. She returned this summer to see what has and hasn’t changed as the U.S. prepared to withdraw its troops.  Source: Photoblog When I first met Yanar Mohammed in 2003, she was holding a megaphone and leading a women’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rojwomen.com&amp;blog=13236854&amp;post=2985&amp;subd=rojwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early marriages and illiteracy still common among women in Kurdish town</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rojwomen.com&amp;blog=13236854&amp;post=2979&amp;subd=rojwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>20 Women killed in Turkey in October 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to data compiled by bianet, 20 women were killed by men in October 2011. 22 women were wounded, seven women raped. From January to October 2011, a total of 226 women were killed and 93 were raped. Source: Bianet According to data based on reports in local and national newspapers and news agencies, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rojwomen.com&amp;blog=13236854&amp;post=2970&amp;subd=rojwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish court reduces sentences for men accused of raping 13-year-old</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Rights groups have reacted with outrage after a Turkish court reduced the prison sentences of 26 men convicted for having sex with a 13-year-old girl because the victim had given &#8220;consent&#8221;. Source: The Guardian In a judgment this week, the court ruled that the sentence was based on the old Turkish penal code, under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rojwomen.com&amp;blog=13236854&amp;post=2884&amp;subd=rojwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mass Rape Case in Kurdish Turkey &#8211; Victims Absent at Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trial regarding the sexual abuse of four girls by 35 people in Siirt was postponed to 25 January. Defendant Kuzu, a former teacher of the girls, was caught and arrested last week. His file will be tried separately in December. Source: Bianet The trial regarding the sexual abuse of four girls at primary school age [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rojwomen.com&amp;blog=13236854&amp;post=2966&amp;subd=rojwomen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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