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• Women’s bakery opens in a village of Qamishlo 

  Women in Tirbespiyê are opening a bakery to provide bread for the surrounding villages with the support of Women’s Economy Center.
• Women's arts and crafts exhibited in Qamishlo 

  The Kevana Zêrin Movement organised the exhibition getting together women from all Northern Syria.
• TJK-E: We stand against isolation and the massacre of women 

  The European Kurdish Women's Movement TJK-E published the final declaration of its congress.
• Female prisoners in Mardin protesting oppression 

  Prisoners in Mardin Type E Prison have been refusing to go to lawyer visits for the last five months because their visits are being recorded.
• Women in Rojava celebrate opening of JIN TV 

  After several months of testing, the new women's channel JIN TV went on the air. The opening was celebrated in Qamishlo and Shehba in northern Syria.
• Jineology Committee in Kobanê runs new training session 

  Dedicated to young women, the training session will last 8 days.
• JIN TV on air 

  Today, the women's channel JIN TV went on air.
• KJK: Women will play an important role in Parliament 

  The KJK said AKP fascism is still strong but it has lost pieces.
• Jin TV ready to go on air 

  Jin (Women) TV channel will begin broadcasting on Saturday 30 June.
• Kurdish Women’s Festival in UK dedicated to YPJ martyr Campbell 

  The Festival will take place in London on 6 and 7 July.
• Another Yazidi woman murdered in Afrin 

  Fatma Hamke was 66 years old.
• Young Women’s Union established in Raqqa for the first time 

  The slogan of the meeting was: "We will destroy the slavery mentality with the struggle of the women".
• Women prisoners harassed in prison 

  Women prisoners subjected to ill treatment and harassment in prison.
• 72 year old Dinler: They are the true terrorists! 

  72 year old Fatma Dinler said when she was taken to the police station, the officers who brought her in told the others, “Look, we got a terrorist for you.” Dinler, who has heart and blood pressure issues and diabetes, was held without food or water.
• Syrian Women's Academy begins new education term in Tabqa 

  In six months, several women graduated from the Academy and are now working.
• 72 years old Fatima Dinler released from prison 

  The woman had been arrested on Sunday after casting her vote
• 72-year-old woman jailed in Mardin 

  An elderly Kurdish woman was imprisoned due to an approved prison sentence.
• Thousands join the Zilan Women’s Festival in Dortmund 

  Thousands of women joined the festival on the eve of the elections in Turkey.
• From the plains of al-Bab to the mountains of Kurdistan 

  Gülbahar is one of seven children of an Arab mother and a Kurdish father. From the northern Syrian plains of al-Bab she went to the mountains of Kurdistan.
• Four more women and girls kill themselves in Iran 

  Four women and girls have committed suicide in Iranian capital Tehran and the provinces of Shiraz, Rafsanjan and Ahwaz.
• Kurdistan women’s call against Turkish invasion 

  Women from three parts of Kurdistan condemned the Turkish state’s invasion attacks against Bashur and submitted a petition to the Kurdistani government and parliament. The women are calling on all to object to the invasion.
• Young Kurdish women go to Qandil to support Human Shields 

  The women oppose Turkey’s attempts to occupy South Kurdistan.
• Young women on their way to Qandil against the invasion 

  Members of Combative Young Women set out from 4 centers in Bashure (Southern) Kurdistan in the morning hours to visit the youth carrying out the human shield action in Qandil for the last 13 days against the Turkish state’s invasion attacks.
• Women’s workplace opens in Ayn Isa 

  The Rojava Revolution helped women reclaim their space and role.
• YPJ fighters: “We fight to liberate women” 

  YPJ fighters who participate in the Operation Cizire Storm against ISIS gangs say they fight for the freedom of all women, and Arab women in particular.