community/life

14:54

Lina Eli, mother of two, wanted to divorce her husband due to violence against her. She struggled to get a divorce because Iraqi society doesn’t allow women to get a divorce. “I chose divorce because I couldn’t have a dishonorable life anymore,” Lina Eli told us.

11:13

Geçe Center has been working for women to educate and defend themselves for about a year in Halabja. The center provides opportunities for women to earn their livelihood.

15:03

Wefa Derwîş is a fighter of the HPC-JIN (Women's Civil Defense Forces) on liberated Mount Kizwanan. She demands an international tribunal be established to prosecute ISIS fighters.

18:28

“Iraqi women’s group is here” is a women’s organization founded in Iraq in 2018. The organization has organized many campaigns and protests since its foundation. Shaima Behzad, the president of the organization, spoke to NuJINHA about their works in Iraq. “We have launched more than 50 campaigns. Iraqi women are the symbol of peace,” she said.

11:29

Halise Bilir, who lost her two sons in two years, has struggled for peace so that other mothers will not suffer from losing their children. “All mothers should speak out and join hands. We have suffered a lot, but we chose to resist not mourn. We defend life against war, we struggle for peace.”

12:01

Mesopotamia Language and Culture Research Association (MED-DER) Co-chair Şilan Elmas Kan thinks children should learn their mother tongue, “Children knowing their mother tongue are more successful.”

10:25

Çiğdem Kuzucu lost her only child Erdi Berkay Gülmez to leukemia years ago. Now she gives hope to thousands of people by forming a group called “Can You Be One of 1000 Volunteers” on social media to draw attention to adult patients with leukemia and to help countless patients waiting for transplantation waiting for stem cells transplantation.

14:47

Husa Ehmed, who has lived in the Til El-Leben village since her childhood, noted that her village has been under the Turkish bombardment for a long time, “I demand the Turkish state be tried for its crimes against civilians and animals. I demand justice. We will not leave our village even if we have to create life out of death.”

09:00

Prison conditions in Turkey have been worsening for years but after the Covid-19 pandemic the conditions have become worse. “Contact visits haven’t been allowed due to the pandemic. I haven’t held my son’s hands or hugged him for a year. This is the worst thing for a mother,” said Mihan Turan, whose son has been held in a prison.

09:40

Referring to the importance of Jineology for Middle Eastern women, Nujin Yusif, a member of the Academy of Jineology in the Middle East, called for the spread of Jineology in the Middle East so that women can build a common life.

09:10

Sociologist Feryal Saygılıgil spoke to NuJINHA about many issues such as why people just watch femicides and the reflections of femicides on social media platforms in Turkey. “Femicides become ordinary in public spaces. We may be from different classes and have different colors but we are oppressed in the same way. We are all victims of this system.”

08:44

Yazidis faced genocide committed by ISIS on August 3, 2014, in front of the whole world. Ezda was just 13 years old when ISIS attacked them. She and her family members were taken captive by ISIS. She faced the tyranny of ISIS; she was tortured and raped. “What I faced wasn’t my fault. They took me when I was a child playing games with my friends. I am not responsible for what happened to me. This world is sinful; this world is responsible for what happened to us. We faced many things that cannot be explained with words,” Ezda said.

09:48

Centuries ago, the Yazidis settled in an area located between the Ninova plain and the Shengal mountains. They live in Shengal’s 20 towns, two districts, and hundreds of villages. Yazidis, Arabs, Turkmens and Kurds live together in settlements located between Shengal and Tilafer. Those who lost their loved ones in these areas live with everlasting mourning. The genocide against them never ends and the mass graves close to them tear their heart out. 81 mass graves surround you wherever you go…

11:26

The primary school of Til Temir’s Gozeliyê village was renovated and opened again for the 2020-2021 academic year with the efforts of the villagers for their children. But Turkish airstrike shelled the school on June 26. Neda Silêman, the teacher of the school, called on the international courts to not allow this crime to go unpunished.

10:02

Suham was abducted by ISIS with her grandmother when ISIS attacked Shengal in 2014. She now tries to hold on to life again by working with her father at their shoe shop. “We will never forget what Daesh did to me and women but we will stand firm together,” said Suham, who faced ISIS tyranny.

12:43

The rate of suicide cases is increasing in Iraq; a total of 2, 197 suicide cases were recorded between 2017 and 2020. 386 men committed suicide in 2020 while this number was 276 for women, say official reports. Former member of the Human Rights Commission and women's rights activist Büşra al-Ubeydi drew attention to the suspicious deaths of women recorded as suicide in the country.

08:00

Kudret Fendik is only one of the Kurdish women, who have faced war, displacement and death. She never bows down before anyone and she has raised her nine children alone.

13:08

According to a study conducted in Pakistan on the gender of drivers, 80 percent of drivers are men. 17-year-old Khadija El Kubra wears men’s clothes to take her siblings to school safely every day.

09:34

191 people lost their lives and 1,059 people were injured in July due to conflicts in Afghanistan, according to the report released by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). The report also says that 78, 911 families were forcibly displaced in July.

09:47

Before the last Israeli attack on Gaza, Palestinians bought Israeli products and asked people, “Do you know this is an Israeli product?” to boycott Israeli products after Baraa Lavi and a group of people launched a boycott Israel campaign. Gaza is the second place which buys the products of Israel the most after the USA and the people of Gaza slowly learn that.