Category: Women

NRLS: ISIS’s violations against women and children

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

The culture of justifying physical and spiritual murder in the name of faith and religion is nothing but an anomaly that expresses a perverse criminal mentality about the general behavior and morality of human societies. Whatever its motives and justifications, the violation of the right to life and encroachment upon these rights is outside of the realm of humanity itself, and the infringement on the life of dozens of people can only be interpreted as barbaric behavior far from human morals and values. Read more in PDF

Children, Reports, War Crimes, Women

Three thousand Yazidi women and children rescued from ISIS

August 3, 2019August 4, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

Three thousand out of the 6,417 Yazidi women and children abducted from Shengal by ISIS have been rescued from the gangs under the lead of YPJ fighters.

Iraq, News, War Crimes, Women

3 August: Call for an International Day of Action against Feminicide

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

Let’s make August 3rd the International Day of Struggleagainst Feminicide through our joint organization!

On August 3rd 2019 is the fifth anniversary of the genocidal attack by the so-called Islamic State(IS) on Êzidi (Yazidi) Kurds in the Northern Iraqi city of Sinjar. Starting on August 3, 2014 the attacksand massacres caused a humanitarian catastrophe but importantly had the genocidal objective oferadicating the whole Êzidi community. Women were systematically targeted within this genocide andtherefore it also constitutes a feminicide.

News, War Crimes, Women

Letter from the United Kurdish Women’s Platform to the UN

July 12, 2019October 29, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

United Kurdish Women’s Platform have sent a letter to UN and the political parties regarding the interventions of Turkey to the region and their territorial integrity and the policies they…

News, Turkey, Women

Female prisoner battered by wardens in front of her mother

July 9, 2019July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève 710 Comments

Fidan Karadag, mother of Remziye Karadag who was transferred to the Elazig High Security Prison from the Urfa Type T Prison No.2 9 months ago, went to visit her daughter and witnessed her being battered.

News, Turkey, Women

Prisoners’ mothers tortured with strip searches

May 14, 2019July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève 647 Comments

The mothers who were detained on Thursday and Friday as they were holding a vigil in front of the Bakirköy Prison to draw attention to the hunger strikes and death fasts in prisons against the Imrali isolation were taken to the Istanbul Vatan Police Headquarters Security Department Directorate where they were subjected to strip searches and insults.

News, Turkey, Women

Zehra Doğan dedicated award to hunger strikers

April 5, 2019July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

The International Freedom of Expression Awards honors those who fight against censorship in the fields of art, campaign, digital activism and journalism.

News, Women

Lawyers and MEPs: Hunger strike to continue until isolation lifted

January 13, 2019July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève 632 Comments

A foreign delegation, including European Parliament deputies, is in Amed to express their support to DTK co-chair Leyla Güven. Sinn Fein and Labour party MEPs Martina Anderson and Julia Ward are part of the delegation which includes also human rights defender Wendy Lyon of Ireland, UK human rights lawyer Margaret Owen and Italian lawyer Simonetta Crisci and Rosella Santi.

News, Turkey, Women