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• Kongreya Star ended its two days of congress 

  Kongreya Star will step up initiatives to counter the regime of isolation imposed by the Turkish state on Kurdish People's Leader Öcalan
• Rojbîna me (Our Rojbin) book presented in Strasbourg 

  Brittany Kurdish Friendship Association presented the book telling the story of Fidan Doğan (Rojbin).
• TAJÊ promises free Êzidxan in memory of Mam Zeki 

  Free Yazidi Women’s Movement promised a free Êzidxan in memory of Yazidi Society Coordination member Zeki Şengali who lost his life as result of an assassination by the Turkish state.
• Kongreya Star congress enters second day 

  The over 700 delegates will assessed the current situation and plan work ahead
• YJA Star: The first shot brought hope and courage 

  YJA Star has published a message of greeting on the anniversary of the PKK's initiation of an armed struggle for liberation.
• Yazidi woman rescued by SDF from ISIS speaks 

  Yazidi woman abducted by ISIS gangs said she will never forget the tyranny she endured and that she made it to freedom thanks to YPJ fighters.
• Women in Sincan Prison expose the violations of rights 

  Van Catak Municipality co-chair, Evin Keve, assaulted by guards.
• Women of Manbij: Building a new society 

  Women played a prominent role in the liberation of Manbij in 2016 and are now leading the creation of the new city.
• Women demand freedom for Öcalan 

  Syria Youth Council co-chair, Albin Ehmed said young women will step up initiative for Kurdish People's Leader Öcalan.
• Kurdish women promoted conference in Russia 

  Kurdish women in Russia step up campaign 'Freedom for Öcalan'
• Third Women’s Council opened in Raqqa 

  It is the third office of this kind to be opened in the Raqqa city to promote the role of free women in free society.
• Rojbin in 50 photos 

  “Who dared murder Rojbin?” The story of 50 photos starts with this question.
• Yusif: The Rojava Revolution is spreading everywhere 

  Speaking at the Third Young Women's Union (YJC) Congress, Foza Yousif said: "The Women's Revolution, which started in Rojava, is now implemented in Raqqa, Tabqa and Deir ez-Zor.”
• Women Journalists’ Platform remembers Deniz Fırat 

  Four years ago, Kurdish journalist Deniz Firat was killed in an attack by the ISIS in the Makhmur refugee camp in southern Kurdistan on August 8, 2014.
• Young women in Northern Syria organize themselves 

  In Rojava, the third congress of "Young Women's Union" (Yekîtiya Jinên Ciwan, YJC) has begun.
• YPJ in solidarity with abortion advocates of Argentina 

  The YPJ have expressed their solidarity with the pro-abortion advocates in Argentina.
• Kongreya Star is meeting women after Congress in Shehba 

  Several meetings are being organised in Shehba to share the Congress final documents.
• IHD's Onaran: Women prisoners are facing severe conditions 

  IHD Prison Commission member Hatice Onaran said that ill prisoners are under severe conditions.
• Two-days seminar on Jineology in Sulaymaniyah 

  The role of women and the meaning of freedom and a new life through the lens of Jineology.
• Women's Office opens first shop in Raqqa 

  The project is the first to be implemented and support women's economy in Raqqa.
• Women remember Shengal victims in Istanbul 

  Women in Istanbul showed their solidarity and support with Yazidi women.
• Yazidi Women from Afrin: We’ll struggle to liberate home 

  Yazidi women remember the genocide on August 3, 2014.
• YJŞ: Organized women are the best response to the genocide 

  Shengal Women’s Units said, “We remember with respect all the martyrs of the resistance and the martyrs of the genocide in the person of the Shengal resistance martyrs Berivan, Nujiyan, Tekoşin and Zilan.”
• The prison for Yazidi women in Raqqa 

  After the occupation of Raqqa, the "Islamic State" (IS) seized private homes and used them as a prison for the Yazidis kidnapped from Shengal four years ago.
• 3 August, the day humanity was lost 

  Thousands of Yazidi men and women were massacred, captured, turned into slaves. The stories of the survivors.