community/life

09:37

60-year-old Teybet Xalid from the village of Girkê Selma, located in the Dêrîk city of North and East Syria says that their village is an ancient settlement and famous for its poplar trees that raise hopes.

10:53

Mihdiya Hilal, who realized her dream by joining the Women's Internal Security Forces, says, “My path was more important than the rumors in society.”

09:38

ISIS attacked Shengal on August 3, 2014 and killed hundreds of Yazidis. Fehîme and Eli managed to flee from ISIS with their 10-day-old baby, whom they named Penaber.

11:09

The “Colored Threads” project is a success and challenge story of young women with special needs in the Gaza Strip.

14:11

Women living in the southern Gaza Strip suffer from the patriarchal mindset and the lack of access to many services while struggling to survive due to the Israeli siege.

14:21

Remziye Kaya earns a living by collecting sumac growing on the mountainsides of Çewlîg (Bingöl). “You have to make great efforts to collect and process sumac,” she said.

09:31

Medya Xanım launched an initiative called, “I want a bike” to boost cycling among women. She says her aim is to change masculine mindset by breaking stereotypes.

13:35

The IDPs camps in the occupied Idlib suffer from the lack of clean drinking water. “Clean drinking water should be provided to the camps as soon as possible,” said Dr Yasmine Al-Halabi.

11:33

Delivery nurse Aya Al-Atola applies cupping therapy to treat health problems faced by women and girls in the Gaza Strip.

10:34

Türkan Alayumat, who was displaced to Istanbul after her village was burned down in 1992, returned to her village years later. She lives in the tent she set up on the place where her burned down house was located.

10:21

Fatma Kara, who had to leave her village Hilal located in Şırnak in the 90s when the Turkish forces forced the villagers to become village guards, dreams of returning to her village with her granddaughter.

10:11

The Intellectual Union of Cizre Region has opened reading gardens to promote reading culture and raise public awareness. Kewser Mardînî says their aim is to create an intellectual society.

12:40

The women living in Tell Tamer’s Tell Necma village play an important role in animal husbandry and agriculture while resisting the ongoing Turkish attacks.

09:27

Being banned from going to highlands for security reasons, milkmaids have to walk three hours every day to milk their goats. They demand the lift of the ban.

10:57

Meryem Ismail, a weightlifter challenging stereotypes, trains hard to achieve successes.

14:51

In Amed’s Silvan district, women collect wild mountain thyme to use in the kitchen. They consume wild thyme tea and oil because it is good for health.

12:25

Widowed and divorced women staying in special camps in Turkish-occupied Idlib face the risk of harassment and rape.

11:23

As the anniversary of the genocide committed by ISIS against the Yazidi community in Shengal is approaching, the Yazidi community demands mass graves be exhumed and the prosecution of ISIS members.

12:07

Women’s House, one of the networks created to solve the problems faced by women, leads social change in the Qamishlo Canton of North and East Syria.

09:58

Displaced women, who struggle to survive in tents, which do not protect them from the heat weather in summer, cannot access food, health services and clean water.