community/life

09:52

Eyhan Yunis secretly learned the Kurdish language with her friends when she was 18 years old due to the oppression of the Baathist regime in Syria. Now, she has hundreds of students and teaches them the Kurdish language. She states that they were just eight people struggling for their mother language but now thousands of people struggle for it.

11:22

People living in the refugee camps of northern Syria suffer from skin diseases due to the lack of health and cleaning services. The diseases are spreading in the camps due to the high prices of medicines and treatments. Dermatologist Safaa Al-Alluş calls on health workers and doctors to support the people in the refugee camps and she demands free medicines for the people.

10:00

Mahsun Saruhan, who was hit by a piece of shrapnel and wounded in his foot, has been denied medical treatment in jail for six years. “Do they wait for people to die?” asked his mother Sulhiye Saruhan, who demands immediate release of all sick prisoners.

11:00

Women, victims of child marriage in the Federal Kurdistan Region, told us their stories and demanded that a law should be enacted to prevent child marriage.

09:26

Maryam Belala, the head of the Centre for Women in Distress, called for providing protection measures, psychological and social support in various sectors to protect women from violence. “We need laws preventing gender-based violence in Algeria,” she said.

08:40

Psychologist Neşmil Resul pointed out that women commit suicide by setting themselves on fire due to the increasing domestic violence in Sulaymaniyah. “I am ready to provide psychological support to women,” she said.

13:15

“Turkey has violated the international conventions by cutting off the water of the Euphrates. We call on the international organizations to fulfill their responsibilities,” said Emine Bekir, a member of the Autonomous Administration in the Euphrates Region.

08:58

Pakize Öztaş is claimed to have killed herself in May 2020; however, her relatives say she was killed by her husband. The investigation launched into the incident hasn’t been completed for 19 months. “The criminals walk free. The killers shouldn’t go unpunished,” her mother Jiyan Başboğa said.

08:56

Wafaa Hilles, the project's coordinator of the Centre for Women's Legal Researches and Consulting (CWLRC), told us the campaign launched by the CWLRC to prevent violence against women in Palestine continues. She demanded the Palestinians participate in the activities organized by the CWLRC.

14:57

On December 2, 2019, Turkey carried out a massacre against displaced children of Afrin in the Til Rifat town of Shehba. Eight children were killed and 12 more children were wounded in the Turkish operation. Their families, friends, and teachers condemn the silence of the world against this massacre. “Why do the killers of the children go unpunished?” they asked.

13:00

Women around the world have held activities to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign and they have called for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls. Libyan women held a conference to discuss how they can eliminate violence against women. Drawing attention to the importance of positive psychology, Ghada Maghrabi, one of the women who attended the conference, said, “We try to spread this culture and awareness in our society because raising awareness ends gender-based violence.”

12:37

“We can no longer tolerate it,” say the women, who are subjected to verbal violence in Idlib. Henan El-Ebraş, a social worker in the city, drew attention to the role of press outlets in the increase of violence.

10:26

Drawing attention to the increasing violence against women, women of Halabja say that one day is not enough to prevent violence.

11:40

Zeynep Siri, one of the women who took shelter in the in Jinwar village due to the pressure and violence they faced, who has been living in the village for four years. “I have been realizing my dreams in the village. Women should stand against the slavery to free themselves. They should defend their rights,” she said.

12:00

Jinwar village, which opened on November 25, 2018, is an all-women village. Women building a common life have built a small model of the Democratic Nation in this village. Stating that this village strengthens women, Ruken Rojda says the door of the village is open for all women.

11:04

“It is winter now and diseases are spreading in the camp but we don’t have medicine. The people living in the camps should be protected,” said Afrin’s displaced women, who live in the camps of Shehba.

10:16

The number of kolbars is increasing day by day in Iran and its provinces due to the economic crisis. In the border provinces, where unemployment and poverty rates are the highest, the number of female kolbars is also increasing. The women, whose husbands or children lost their lives while working as kolbar, become kolbars to earn a living for their family.

09:30

We spoke to the children of Kobanî on the occasion of World Children’s Day. “Where are the states claiming to defend children's rights today? Why are our rights not protected?” the children asked.

13:30

25-year-old Bayan Abusalameh, a Palestinian Mechanical Engineer, has launched a campaign called “From Palestine to Space” to promote the Palestinian first cube satellite named “Palestine-1” all around the world. “I need both financial and moral support for my project,” she said.

12:22

Women of Idlib take the wheel to challenge gender biases. We spoke to women encourage other women by taking the wheel.