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• REPAK calls for resistance against the ‘Personal Status Law’ approved in Iraq 

  Adoption of the ‘Personal Status Law’ will deepen sectarianism and further violate the unprotected rights of women and children, said REPAK and warned that Yazidi women are under the threat of a new ISIS genocide due to the Iraqi state’s policies.
• DEM Party Women's Assembly condemns the police attack against MP Newroz Uysal in Van 

  DEM Party Women's Assembly condemned the police attack against MP Newroz Uysal in Van, saying: “We will not submit to the fascist male power that tries to spread fear with the trustee coup and torture. We will never step back.”
• Iranian Writers' Association calls for annulment of death sentences for Warisha, Pakshan and Sharifa 

  The Iranian Writers' Association has called for the death sentences of Warisha Moradi, Pakshan Azizi and Sharifa Mohammadi to be annulled.
• KJK: The resistance in Van is the Kurdistan struggle for freedom  

  The KJK called on all of Kurdistan to resist for freedom against the trustee in Van.
• TJK-E calls for participation in Strasbourg march for Öcalan's freedom 

  The TJK-E has called on everyone to join the march which will take place in Strasbourg on 15 February under women's leadership, urging people to turn ‘Black Day’ into a ‘Day of Freedom.’
• Thousands of women protest the international conspiracy in Qamishlo 

  In Qamishlo, thousands of women marched to condemn the international conspiracy and demand the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan.
• Jineoloji workshop in Johannesburg 

  A workshop was organized in Johannesburg by the Jineoloji Academy. Many women's organizations and groups attended the meeting.
• Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar: Abdullah Öcalan produces solutions for the future of the country 

  TJA organized a march in Van under the slogan “Women are marching to freedom”. Police staged a brutal crackdown on the demonstrators and detained many by use of violence.
• 18 detained in police attack on women demonstrating for peace in Van - UPDATED 

  In Van, the police attacked a march organized by the Free Women's Movement (TJA) with the slogan “Women marching to freedom”. 18 people were violently taken into custody.
• Preparations for 8 March actions begin in Istanbul  

  The March 8 Women’s Platform held a press statement in front of Süreyya Opera House in Kadıköy to protest the overturning of the sentence of Pınar Gültekin’s murderer and to officially launch the preparations for International Women’s Day. A banner readin
• Qamishlo Women’s Congress publishes final declaration 

  The final declaration of the Women’s Congress in Qamishlo has been published. The declaration includes proposals related to political, legal, economic, social, educational, and academic matters.
• Co-mayor of Dersim sentenced to prison for speeches against usurpation of municipality 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide campaign against the Kurdish people and their elected representatives continues unabated.
• KCDP: 33 women massacred in January 

  According to the report published by the KCDP, 33 women were murdered by men in January, while 32 women died under suspicious circumstances.
• Neslihan Şedal: Special war policies deepen women's poverty 

  The co-chair of the GABB, Neslihan Şedal, said that ongoing conflicts, special war policies, and the usurpation of municipalities by trustees have deepened women's poverty.
• Warisha Moradi: Iranian regime targets society, but people's resistance will prevail 

  Kurdish political prisoner Warisha Moradi, who has been sentenced to death in Iran, said: "They are trying to condemn the entire society to oppression and execution. But the truth is that resistance will ultimately prevail."
• Women call for international recognition of the Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria 

  Hundreds of women wrote to international institutions, calling on the international community and all political actors to officially recognise the DAANES, to directly support the civil organisations there and to establish long-term cooperation.
• REPAK condemns Iraq’s proposed Personal Status Law 

  REPAK drew attention to the proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law, stating: "The state is redesigning itself through the enslavement of women, and what we are facing is the political face of ISIS."
• Narges Mohammadi: Iran wants women to step back 

  Nobel Peace Prize winner and political prisoner Narges Mohammadi said that the Iranian state wants to make women who support freedom step back with executions and take revenge for the 'Jin Jiyan Azadi' resistance.
• 'Rojava Kurdish Women's Initiative' to work for a democratic, multicultural, egalitarian Syria 

  A group of women in Northern and Eastern Syria said that they have established the 'Rojava Kurdish Women's Initiative' with the aim of taking an active role in the construction of a democratic, multicultural, egalitarian and free Syria.
• YJK-S: We will take to the streets to defend the women’s revolution 

  Kurdish women living in Switzerland are preparing to take to the streets to protest the attacks by the Turkish state.
• Women march to Kobane border in protest at attacks on Rojava 

  Following the "We Defend the Rojava Women's Revolution" forum in Suruç, women marched to the border with Kobanê and expressed their determination to defend the life built there at great cost.
• Men killed at least 378 women in 2024 

  According to the bianet monitoring report, in 2024, men killed 378 women.
• TEV-DEM calls for international action for Pakshan Azizi sentenced to death in Iran 

  Pakshan Azizi was sentenced to death on July 23, 2024 and has been held in Evin prison in Tehran since August 4, 2024. The death penalty handed down to her was upheld last week.
• Sakine Cansız: A symbol of resistance and determination 

  The women guerrillas who followed in the steps of Martyr Sara stand as symbols of resistance and determination against the attacks by the Turkish state.
• Halide Türkoğlu: We will continue to struggle  

  Halide Türkoğlu said that the Paris Massacre was part of the AKP-MHP government's plan to suppress the Kurdish movement.