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• Jinkart, facilitating freedom of movement for women 

  In order to make it easier for women to participate in public life, "Jinkart" project has been introduced in Kurdish cities in Turkey. The municipal projects for women that were shut down under state administration are being reactivated.
• Zilan Women's Festival: We are building a new life 

  YJK-E Spokesperson Kezban Doğan stated that the women's struggle rising in the world under the leadership of Kurdish women took its colour from Abdullah Öcalan's philosophy and said, "We are now building a new life."
• Panel on 'Self-Defence-Women' at Zilan Festival in Germany 

  The 18th Zilan Cultural Festival started in Duisburg with the slogan “With Jin-Jiyan-Azadî to the women’s revolution”.
• Hundreds of thousands of women joined feminist strike in Bern 

  Hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets in Switzerland for the feminist strike on Friday.
• Zîlan Festival will be celebrated today in Duisburg 

  A varied program awaits participants at the Zîlan Festival of the Kurdish women's movement today in Duisburg's RheinPark. In addition to music and dance, there will be an open microphone for young women and opportunities to get involved.
• Director Bahare Lelahi killed in prison in Iran 

  Film director Bahare Lelahi, who was arrested during the protests for Jina Mahsa Amini, was killed in prison and buried without her family's knowledge.
• Women’s workshop addresses “The Phenomenon of Political Islam” 

  The Syrian Democratic Council’s Women’s Office held a workshop entitled “Women Confront Political Islam and Exclusion”.
• Iran sentences female cartoonist to 6 years in prison 

  The Iranian state sentenced female cartoonist Atena Farghadani to 6 years in prison for her art.
• Suham Şengalî: KDP implements the policy of ISIS against Yazidi women rescued from ISIS 

  TAJÊ Diplomacy Committee Member Suham Şengalî stated that the KDP does not want the women freed from ISIS to stay in Shengal and said, “The KDP's policy is not different from ISIS' policy. It wants to take them away from their own culture and land."
• Women read Abdullah Öcalan's books in Amûdê 

  Kongra Star organised an event to read Abdullah Öcalan's books in Amûde. Women read and discussed the topics written by Abdullah Öcalan in his defence.
• Exhibition by women who left Hol Camp 

  25 women who left Hol Camp and returned to Raqqa Canton opened a handicraft exhibition, as part of the Autonomous Administration's efforts to integrate families who left the camps into social life.
• TJK-F holds its 5th Congress in Paris 

  TJK-F held its 5th Congress in Paris.
• Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi's trial held in her absence 

  The court session for jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi was held in Tehran without her presence.
• Şîrîn Mihemed serves the Rojava Revolution with her pen and voice 

  23-year-old Şîrîn Mihemed serves the Rojava Revolution by reflecting the reality of society with her journalism and voice.
• Kurdish language teacher detained for 23 days without legal access, family visits 

  Susan Hassanzadeh, a civil rights activist and Kurdish language teacher, has been detained for 23 days without family visits or legal counsel in the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province.
• At least 34 women and 8 children murdered in Turkey in May 

  JINNEWS stated that at least 34 women and 8 children were murdered and 18 women and 2 children died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey last month.
• TekoJIN will organize a women's conference in Kassel on 29 June 

  The Movement of Militant Young Women (TekoJIN) will organize a women's conference under the motto "Jin Jiyan Azadî - Ser Bixe Azadî".
• Kurdish women in Reims send letter to CPT 

  Kurdish women living in Reims participated in the letter campaign launched by the European Kurdish Women's Movement and sent letters to the CPT against the torture system in Imrali.
• Plaza De Mayo Mothers founding member Nora Cortiñas dies 

  Nora Cortiñas, founding member of the Plaza De Mayo Mothers and a friend of the Kurdish people, has died at the age of 94.
• Iraqi women support TAJÊ's campaign: We will be the voice of self-defence against femicide 

  Supporting the TAJÊ’s campaign "Against femicide – be the voice of self-defense", female politicians, journalists, intellectuals and activists from Iraq said: “We will fight together and be the voice of self-defence against femicide.”
• 'Our main goal is to create an equal, just and democratic society based on women's freedom' 

  Mekiye Hiso, a member of the Syrian Women's Assembly, said that they have once again realised the importance of women's self-defence with the revolution in North and East Syria, adding that they will focus more on organisation in Syrian cities.
• Ayla Akat Ata meets with people in Batman: Our struggle will continue 

  Meeting with the people at the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Batman Provincial Organisation building, Ayla Akat Ata stated that the Kurdish question does not only concern the Kurdish people, but all parties must deal with it.
• Rojava Women's Revolution workshop at Vienna Festival Weeks 

  A workshop on the Rojava Women's Revolution was organised as part of the Vienna Festival Weeks. In the workshop where confederative women's structures and achievements were introduced, the importance of Rojava experience was discussed.
• Kurdish journalist and activist Gorji sentenced to 21 years in Iran 

  Kurdish journalist and women's rights activist Jina Modarres Gorji has been sentenced to 21 years in prison by the Iranian regime's judiciary. She was accused of overthrowing the mullah state with “feminist ideology”.
• KJAR Congress: We will respond to the hopes and demands of women in East Kurdistan and Iran 

  The East Kurdistan Free Women's Community (KJAR) held its fourth congress and announced that "as a pioneering women's movement, we will respond to the hopes and demands of women in East Kurdistan and Iran."