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• 23 detained in police attack against women for HDP municipalities 

  Police forces of the Turkish regime continue with their brutal attacks against masses reclaiming the HDP municipalities seized by the AKP.
• 62-year-old Peace Mother prisoner not admitted to hospital 

  On Friday morning 86-percent disabled and 62-year-old prisoner Mevlüde Başdaş, was vomiting blood and was taken to hospital from Şakran Women's Prison. She was sent back to prison after being told there was no place in the hospital.
• YPJ martyr Anna Campbell dedicated a street in Bilbao 

  Bilbao dedicated a street to YPJ martyr Anna Campbell Helin Qereçox).
• TJK-E calls for simultaneous demonstrations at 6 pm 

  Kurdish Women’s Movement Europe (TJK-E) said the confiscation of Amed, Van and Mardin municipalities again a coup and called for simultaneous demonstrations around the world at 6 pm.
• Women from Afrin support Kongreya Star campaign against invasion 

  Women of North and East Syria are increasingly expressing their determination to stand against Turkish invasion.
• Looking at War and Peace from a Gender Perspective 

  The Gender Society and Peace Book published by Nisan Alıcı and Güneş Daşlı for Dipnot Publishing addressed the issue of gender looking at countries in conflict or emerging from war and involved in a peace process.
• HPC-Jin members: We will resist and will not allow an invasion 

  HPC-Jin members stated that they are always ready to defend their land against possible attacks.
• Kongreya Star actions against invasion to start on August 17 

  Actions to be launched as part of Kongreya Star Rojava Coordination’s campaign against Turkish invasion will start on August 17.
• Women of Kobane on border vigil against Turkish invasion threats 

  Women from Kobane launched a vigil along the border against Turkey’s threats to invade North and East Syria. The women said: “We will stand against the attacks. We will defend our lands that were freed with the blood of our martyrs.”
• Women of Gire Spi: We resist with the Democratic Nation project 

  Kongreya Star Gire Spi Coordination members visited the ongoing human shield action in Gire Spi and said they will resist the Turkish state’s invasion threats with the Democratic Nation project.
• Qamishlo women support Kongreya Star campaign against invasion 

  Women in North and East Syria have been taking to the streets in protest at the Turkish state’s attacks and threats of invasion against the region.
• Women rally in Kobane, call for unity against threats of invasion 

  Women in North and East Syria are increasingly protesting against the Turkish state’s threats of invasion targeting the region.
• Protest against Yazidi Genocide in London 

  Kurdish People’s Council London held a performance to protest ISIS gangs’ attack against Shengal on August 3 and the subsequent massacre.
• Turkey: 31 women murdered in July, 245 in the first 7 months 

  According to a report by the Stop Femicide Platform, 31 women were murdered in Turkey in July, and 245 women in the first seven months of the year.
• PAJK’s Güneş: Women should rise up for change and freedom 

  “Women should rise up in the first place. The youth and women should play their role in society.”
• Female teachers in Manbij: We won’t allow Turkish invasion 

  Female teachers in Manbij condemned the Turkish state’s occupation threats against North and East Syria.
• YPJ: We reiterate our pledge to avenge Yazidi women 

  "We as the Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) have seen the protection of the women of Shengal, its people, and women as a whole as our historic duty. There proved to be no other way except to stand up and fight, once faced by an enemy as ISIS was."
• Women of Shengal: We have organized to avoid further massacres  

  Women of Shengal said the ISIS attacks and massacres haven’t broken their will and stressed that they have organized so the massacres against the Yazidi people won’t happen again.
• Arab women remember victims of the Shengal genocide 

  Arab women expressed that they will always stand by the women from Shengal, and that they are ready to pay any price for the freedom of women.
• TJK-E calls on women to join demos for Shengal on 3 August 

  "As TJK-E we call on all our women and friends in Kurdistan and elsewhere, all those who support freedom, democracy to participate in the actions to be held on 3 August."
• Yazidi Women's House opens in Shengal 

  "As Yazidi Women's Aid Network, we have many projects for women. We will try to help the Yazidi women to survive the pain and torture they have experienced."
• Deir ez-Zor: Women protest against Turkish occupation threats 

  In Deir ez-Zor, women have taken to the streets to protest the Turkish occupation threats. "As women, we have formed a unity and will resist," said Hiyam Ahmed.
• Do not forget Shengal at 11 am on August 3 

  Commemorative events will take place in numerous German cities on the anniversary of the genocide and femicide in Shengal on 3 August. At 11 o'clock a minute of silence will be observed nationwide.
• Female teachers in Tabqa protest Turkish threats: We will resist 

  Female teachers in Tabqa condemned the Turkish state’s occupation threats against North and East Syria.
• “The foundation in Berfin’s name will give hope to more Berfins” 

  Women are working to establish a foundation in the name of Berfin Ozek, who suffered an acid attack in Iskenderun.