Rozerin Özçelik runs a grocery store with her mother in the Sur district of Diyarbakır (Amed), a city in Turkey. The economic crisis has affected shopkeepers harshly, she observes. “Nevertheless, in spite of these difficulties, we try to keep living and struggle through”, she adds.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) Young Women’s Council organised a workshop to “Take Action!” against harassment, rape and violence towards women.Read More
In the Ovacık Cooperative in the municipality of Dersim, women play the biggest role. They produce various foods, including cheese, yoghurt, grape molasses, and jam. Then they package and tag them. ‘It is really nice to work here’ Songül Gök, who has worked in the cooperative for three years doing packaging, says, “Women produce legumes […]Read More
The death toll has reached 79 in Tokyo due to record high temperatures.Read More
A new report by the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the World Economic Forum has concluded that countries that have been led by women have acted “systematically and significantly better” in terms of their responses towards the Covid-19 crisis.Read More
Two earthquakes, measuring magnitudes of 6.8 and 6.9 respectively, struck Wednesday off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.Read More
The Jinen Tirejen Roje Initiative has stated that it has carried out several targeted actions to protest against the isolation conditions of the Kurdish Movement’s leader, Abdullah Öcalan, and political prisoners in İstanbul in Turkey.Read More
The Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) have issued a programme in support of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) “Democratic Struggle Programme”. It will take place across eight cities in ten days.Read More
Istanbul KESK (the Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions) Women’s Council protested against the detention of their executives and members and demanded their immediate release.Read More
Turkey was the first country to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (popularly referred to as the ‘Istanbul Convention’). It aims to prevent violence, provide victim protection and to end the impunity of perpetratorsRead More
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