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• Decline in suicidal tendencies among women in Kobanê 

  In Kobanê, significantly fewer women attempted suicide in 2019 than in previous years. The prevention efforts of the Kurdish women's umbrella organisation Kongreya Star are clearly having an effect.
• Ayşe Gökkan elected new spokeswoman of the TJA 

  Kurdish activist Ayşe Gökkan has been elected the new spokeswoman of the women's movement TJA. At the two-day conference in Amed, the expansion of the women's struggle was discussed.
• TJK-E condemns murder of Kurdish woman in Lavrio 

  TJK-E strongly condemned the murder of a Kurdish woman from Rojava in the city of Lavrio. The woman was killed in front of her children by her husband.
• PAJK commemorates Viyan Soran 

  Fourteen years ago guerrilla fighter Viyan Soran burned herself to death in protest against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan. The Kurdish women's party PAJK commemorates her with an obituary.
• Event on the role of women in North and East Syria 

  On the initiative of the group "Schwerin for Rojava", Hamburg ethnologist Anja Flach spoke in Schwerin on "democratic confederalism" in Rojava and its struggle for survival against the Turkish jihadist invasion.
• Conference in Amed: No free society without women's freedom 

  "We are women, we exist for our freedom and we fight for change" is the motto of a two-day conference of the women's movement TJA in Amed. Without women's freedom there can be no free society, it was said in the opening speech.
• Memorial for Sara, Rojbin and Ronahi in Berlin 

  A memorial event was held in Berlin for the three Kurdish politicians murdered in Paris in 2013.
• TJA activist Leyla Aşkan taken into custody in Tatvan 

  Tevgera Jinên Azad (TJA) activist Leyla Aşkan was detained at the entrance to Tatvan.
• March in Lavrio against murder of women 

  A march against women murders was held in Lavrio, where a Kurdish refugee woman from Rojava, Evin Ekrem Ali, was brutally killed by her husband.
• Kurdish refugee murdered by husband commemorated in Lavrio 

  Evin Ekrem Ali, a Kurdish refugee woman from Rojava, who was murdered by her husband in Lavrio, was commemorated by hundreds of people.
• Woman killed by husband in police station housing refugees 

  Evin Ekrem Ali, from Qamishlo, came to Greece with her family about 2 years ago. She had 4 children. 
• Sexual violence perpetrated by occupation forces in Serêkaniyê 

  Thirty cases of sexual violence against women by the occupation forces in Serêkaniyê have been documented. The number of unreported cases is said to be much higher.
• Village guard murders his wife in Bingöl 

  Fatma Tümen was murdered in the Northern Kurdistan province of Bingöl by the man she was married to. Ahmet Tümen worked as a paramilitary village guard for the Turkish state.
• Assyrian women against the occupation – A report from Til Temir 

  The northern Syrian district of Til Temir is the target of the invasion troops. It is an outstanding example of the peaceful coexistence of all ethnic and religious identities in the region.
• Congress of young women in Darmstadt concluded 

  At a congress with participants from various European countries, the problems of young women in capitalist modernity were discussed in Darmstadt. The event was concluded with music and dancing.
• Europe-wide congress of young women underway in Germany 

  A Europe-wide congress of young women has begun in Darmstadt. The motto of the event is: "Don't be fooled, the way to freedom is through resistance."
• Miscarriages and maternal health risks amid Turkish invasion 

  Due to the ongoing attacks by jihadist mercenaries and Turkish invading troops, the danger of miscarriages in northern Syria is increasing, warns the women's movement Kongreya Star and the Women Defend Rojava Information Committee.
• Taşdemir: More determined in our struggle against isolation 

  Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Women's Conference met on 18-19 January ahead of the 4th Ordinary Congress, scheduled for February 23.
• Women's Foundation in Rojava expands its field of activity 

  Five years ago the women's foundation WJAR was founded in Rojava. Now the name has been changed and the field of activity has been extended to the whole of northern and eastern Syria.
• Human chain in Amed to protest murders of women 

  Women got together in Amed and organised a human chain against murders of women. The actions was promoted by DAKAP.
• Young women go to congress 

  Kurdish and internationalist young women will organize a congress on 25 January in Darmstadt, Germany.
• Murdered Kurdish women remembered in Toronto 

  Memorial for the six Kurdish women revolutionaries murdered by Turkey in Paris and Silopi.
• Women in Amed publish report on missing student Gülistan Doku 

  Amed Women's Network Against Violence compiled a report on missing university student Gülistan Doku.
• Women ask: "Where is Gülistan Doku?" 

  Free Young Women organized an action in Kadıköy demanding what happened to university student Gülistan Doku, who suspiciously disappeared in Dersim.
• TJK-E calls on women to join demos against attacks on Shengal 

  The TJK-E called on women to take to the streets on Saturday 18 January in Europe and to protest the Turkish army attacks against Shengal.