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• Women's Conference: Revolution in the Making 

  The fifth session of the International Women Conference in Frankfurt showed ways of weaving the future together
• Women share experiences, establish new connections in Frankfurt 

  The Conference ‘Revolution in the Making’ has enjoyed the participation of over 500 women from around the world.
• 73 women’s communes founded in Til Hemis in a month 

  Kongreya Star has established 73 women’s communes during the month of September in Til Hemis town of Heseke governorate in Cizire Region of Northern Syria.
• Nomadic life, guerrillas and the choice of dignity 

  Mother Hediye tried to live the nomadic culture in the middle of the city. What made Hediye so attractive was her authoritarian personality, attachment to her country and her culture.
• Women of the Philippines fighting to get their rights respected 

  ​​​​​​​Mary Joan Guan talked to ANF about the women's struggle in her country and the need to build a women network.
• Women from around the world attend the international conference 

  Women from all over the world are not only sharing their experience but also trying to create a network.
• Shengal commends Nadia Murad 

  The Shengal Democratic Autonomous Council commended the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad.
• Nadia Murad: This Nobel is for all women 

  “We must not only imagine a better future for women, children and persecuted minorities, we must work consistently to make it happen - prioritizing humanity, not war”.
• Women’s conference kicked off in Frankfurt 

  Over 500 women are attending the women’s international conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
• Five hundred women expected at Frankfurt Conference 

  Everything is set for the International Women’s Conference to be held in Frankfurt on Saturday and Sunday.
• MSD Women’s Bureau opened in Serekaniye 

  MSD Women’s Organization has opened an office in Serekaniye.
• Several projects for women in the Hawl Camp 

  The Free Women’s Foundation and Kongreya Star have developed several projects for the organization of women in the Hawl Camp where migrants forced from their lands due to barbaric gang attacks settled.
• Women call to join protests on 9 October 

  Protests are being organised on 9 October in Brussels and Strasbourg to mark the 20th anniversary of the International Conspiracy which led to the capture of Abdullah Ocalan.
• Women of Shehba protest ECHR verdict and isolation 

  The women of Shehba protested the isolation imposed upon Öcalan and the recent ECHR verdict ignoring torture against Öcalan.
• Kongreya Star continues the fight against child marriages 

  Kongreya Star continues the fight against child marriages and polygamy.
• 32 new fighters join the YPJ 

  32 new YPJ fighters are being trained at the "Martyr Rojda Minbic" Academy in northern Syria.
• Women to meet in Frankfurt on 6-7 October 

  Everything is set for the International Women’s Conference to be held in Frankfurt on 6 and 7 October.
• "We do not need a boss" 

  With their tailoring Elif Değer and Fatma Ekinci fight in Cizre against patriarchal ways of thinking. "We do not need a boss for our work," the two women explain.
• Autobiography of Sakine Cansız presented in Milan 

  In the Italian city of Milan, the third volume of "My whole life was a fight" by Sakine Cansiz was launched.
• Tijda, a life from Anatolia and Holland to Zagros 

  Guerrilla Tijda Ekecik joined the Kurdish liberation movement from Holland when an MIT agent murdered three Kurdish revolutionaries in Paris.
• Campaign against child marriages in northern Syria 

  In northern Syria, a campaign against child marriages has been launched. At activities in Hesekê and Tabqa, childhood marriage was denounced as a major social problem.
• Sinn Fein proposed a woman as President of Ireland 

  Liadh Ni Riada is the youngest daughter of the Irish iconic composer and musician, Sean O'Riada.
• Women from Raqqa: We knew freedom through Öcalan’s philosophy 

  Women from Raqqa, who have been imprisoned by hegemonic systems throughout history and in the home and behind black chadors under ISIS occupation, say they got to know freedom with the ideology and philosophy of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Suna Alan – Hope is closer 

  Suna Alan has published stories of Yazidi Kurdish women abused by Daesh, and she has written a song to raise awareness of this issue through music.
• “We won’t leave our lands until we ourselves turn to dust” 

  Women of Bradost said they will resist Turkish state’s invasion attacks: “We won’t leave our lands until we ourselves turn to dust.”