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• Zilan Women Festival will be held on Saturday 

  The 15th Zilan Women Festival will begin on Saturday 22 June at the Arena Hall in Leverkusen, Germany.
• “Sara’s struggle is the struggle of the women of the world” 

  The 6th Sakine Cansiz Women’s Festival concluded with women chanting slogans of resistance and freedom. Throughout the festival, women stressed that the joint struggle must be increased.
• “We want to draw our strength from ourselves” 

  The spokeswoman for the women's movement in Sheikh Maqsoud talked to ANF about the establishment of the Women's Assembly of Northern and Eastern Syria, saying; "Let's get our strength out of ourselves, out of our resistance and become stronger as women."
• New alphabetisation course for women in Raqqa 

  A new alphabetisation course for women opened in the neighborhood of Teyar in Raqqa.
• Şema Ednan: We'll resist Turkish attacks in South Kurdistan 

  Şema Ednan, a member of Tevgera Azad Association, which operates in Southern Kurdistan, said that they won’t remain silent and will oppose Turkish occupation.
• “Öcalan holds the key to the issues in the Middle East” 

  Raqqa Women’s Administration members called on international human rights organizations to fulfill their responsibilities to ensure freedom for Öcalan.
• TJA: Nesrin Sotudeh must be released now 

  Free Women’s Movement (Tevgera Jinen Azad - TJA) said human rights defender and lawyer Nesrin Sotudeh imprisoned in Iran must be released immediately.
• Activists in Biel dedicated a street to Sakine Cansız  

  Sakine Cansız was dedicated a street by activists in the Swiss town of Biel.
• “Women’s struggle entered a new phase” 

  Kongreya Star Coordination Member Heyfa Erebo said the women’s struggle entered a new phase with the Northern and Eastern Syrian Women’s Assembly Founding Congress.
• Kurdish women joined the strike in Switzerland 

  Demonstrations have been held in Basel, Luzern, Bern, Zurich and many other Swiss cities. 
• Yusif: Women’s Assembly will solve social problems 

  The Northern and Eastern Syrian Women’s Assembly Founding Congress continues. Speeches in the congress have stressed the importance of the Women’s Assembly.
• Northern and Eastern Syrian women's assembly to be founded 

  Arab, Kurdish, Syriac, Armenian, Chaldean, Chechen and Circassian women are attending the congress in their traditional clothes.
• Women to go on strike today in Switzerland 

  Women across Switzerland will go on strike today as part of a global movement calling for gender equality and an end to violence against women.
• Human Rights Association sent cards to women prisoners 

  Women from the Human Rights Association sent cards to prisoners who are recovering from the hunger strike resistance.
• The Kurdish Women Movement and the YPJ explained in Sweden 

  The seminar given by Kurdish women on YPJ and the Kurdish women's movement in Uppsala, Sweden, was met with great interest.
• Women from TJK-F held their 3rd Congress in Paris 

  The 3rd Congress in Paris saw the participation of around 100 delegates.
• 6th Sara Women Festival to be held on 16 June 

  The preparations for the Festival are underway and the event is becoming more international every passing year. 
• YPJ Congress: Defense is more valuable than bread and water 

  The main topics discussed in the conference were: the political and military process, 7 years of war practice, restructuring.
• Two Kurdish women in Iran died as hospitals refused to treat them 

  In the last 10 days two Kurdish women lost their lives in Iran when hospitals refused to accept them.
• Young women visited Leyla Güven in hospital 

  Güven told the young women: “Spring came to Kurdistan with the voice of Mr. Öcalan. This year we can celebrate this holiday because Mr. Öcalan's voice has reached us.”
• Nora Cortiñas: We have to monitor that isolation really ends 

  In Argentina the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo meet every week in Mayo Square. They have been doing this for 42 years. A peaceful action, like that of the Saturday Mothers in Istanbul. They demand justice for their sons, and the 30,000 disappeared people.
• One day school of Jineology in Eindhoven 

  The International Free Women's Foundation (IFWF) has opened a one-day school of Jineology in Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
• Women solve all their issues in their own assemblies 

  Rimele Women’s Assembly produces solutions to all issues women in the neighborhood have and enables the women to build a future with their efforts in various areas.
• Women met to prepare the 15th edition of the Zilan Festival 

  Women responded to the call of the Women's Peace Bureau (CENI) and the Kurdish Women's Movement of Germany (YJKE) and met in Cologne, to discuss the preparations for the Zilan Women's Festival on 22 June.
• Rojava: Organization Sara fights against patriarchal violence 

  The Sara organization stands for help and solidarity for women exposed to patriarchal violence in the Euphrates region in Rojava. So far the organization has been able to reach a very large number of women.