Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The Union of Public Sector Employees’ (UNISON’s) Falkirk Branch Chair Margaret Cook and UNISON Women’s Network Chair Pat Heron spoke to Yeni Özgür Politika about the work of women’s trade unionists in the United Kingdom and their project of women’s solidarity with Kurdish women activists against misogyny in Turkey. Heron also stated: “We should also make the British government impose sanctions on Turkey”.
The We Will Stop Femicide Platform (KCDP) announced that 29 women were killed in November and 10 women died in suspicious circumstances.
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For three weeks now, an arbitrary ban on contact has been in effect for Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian, who is being held in Iran. According to human rights activists, she is under pressure to “show remorse” and to “cooperate” with the regime.
Democratic Local Authorities Board member and Tevgera Jinên Azad (TJA) activist Sevil Rojbin Çetin was taken to Mardin prison after being tortured by police using dogs for three hours during the political genocide operation carried out in her home on June 27 in Amed. Prisoner Rojbin Çetin, who is suffering from cancer, is not being treated.
The Human Rights Association (IHD) Istanbul branch prisoners commission held its 453rd “F Session” to draw attention to the situation of ill prisoners, through social media.
A report from the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) and İnsan Hakları Derneği (IHD, Human Rights Association, a member of FIDH and of OMCT’s SOS-Torture network) documents the restrictions affecting the right to freedom of assembly in Turkey, including for women’s rights defenders.
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“In order for us to live free, equal, fair, in mutual trust and ecological balance, the demand for accountability is as indispensable as an uninterrupted resistance of women like free society against sexist, capitalist exploitation,” we write in the appeal of our campaign “100 reasons to condemn the dictator”.
The male policies of the government led to violence and murder of many women this year in Turkey. According to the statistics of We Will Stop Femicide Platform, at least 246 women were murdered between January and October this year. Many women’s deaths were found suspicious.
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