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• Workshop on femicide in Qamishlo discuss ways to prevent violence against women 

  Methods of preventing murder and violence were discussed at the workshop on combating femicide organized by the PYD Women's Council.
• HDP establishes Women's Assembly in Amed 

  Despite the massive repression, the HDP founded a Women's Assembly in Amed. The founding event was dedicated to HDP employee Deniz Poyraz, who was murdered by a Turkish fascist in June.
• Third jineoloji camp in Alicante 

  The third jineoloji camp in Spain was held in Alicante, Valencia, between 7 and 13 July. The camp was dedicated to the internationalist revolutionary Legerin Çiya, who fell a martyr in Rojava in 2018.
• Cihan Xidro: We will make laws for women 

  “We will create laws as part of the fight against violence against women. We also develop training programmes for women, families and men in the society. We aim to create a more conscious and sensitive society.”
• HDP Women's Assembly: We will expose the dirty policies of the government! 

  "We will never turn a blind eye to the crime of sexual abuse and forcing women to have sexual intercourse with security officers. We will not remain silent," said the HDP Women's Assembly.
• Kongreya Star launches ideological education cycle for women 

  Kongreya Star Aleppo Coordination launched an ideological education cycle for women in Sheikh Maqsoud and Aleppo neighbourhoods.
• Women hold Jineology seminar at the Lavrio Camp in Greece 

  A Jineology seminar was held at the Lavrio camp in Greece. The paradigm of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan was debated at the seminar.
• Peace mother Şehriban Tunç passes away in Adıyaman 

  Peace mother Şehriban Tunç has passed away in Adıyaman. The longtime activist and mother of a fallen guerrilla fighter succumbed to a heart attack.
• "Honor killings": Women demand punishment for perpetrators of feminicide 

  In the northeastern Syrian autonomous region, women have once again taken to the streets against feminicides. In Raqqa, the women's coordination of the Autonomous Administration demanded consistent punishment of the perpetrators of so-called "honor killin
• Peace Mothers in Batman protest isolation and stand in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike 

  Despite being obstructed by the police, the Peace Mothers Council in Batman protested the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish people and expressed solidarity with the hunger strike carried out by political prisoners in Turkey.
• HDP Women's Council: AKP-MHP alliance legitimizes sexual violence  

  The men's AKP-MHP alliance has been pursuing unrestrained sexist and misogynist policies for years to legalize sexual violence and abuse of power, said the HDP Women's Council about the new law on the protection of offenders in Turkey.
• Peace mothers arrested in Mardin 

  Peace Mothers Ayla Kaya and Atiye Yılmaz have been arrested in Mardin accused of being “terrorists”. Interviews they gave in Nusaybin at the time of the attack on the city by the authorities.
• Kongra Star in solidarity with the women's resistance in Afghanistan 

  Kongra Star sends a message of solidarity from Rojava to the women's resistance in Afghanistan, quoting Abdullah Öcalan: "Women's self-defense is a very serious issue that cannot be left to the mercy of men."
• 83 women killed, 200 kidnapped by Turkey-linked mercenaries in Afrin in the past 18 months 

  In Turkey-occupied Afrin, 83 women have been killed by mercenaries in the last year and a half, while 200 women have been kidnapped.
• Kongra Star condemns femicide 

  Kongra Star Northern and Eastern Syria Coordination condemned the murder of children and demanded the most severe punishment for the killers.
• Pervin Buldan: The women's struggle gives us hope 

  “As representatives of women's politics, the growing struggle of women throughout the country gives us hope. We are closer than ever to success,” said HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan at the women's faction meeting of the party dedicated to Deniz Poyraz.
• 15-year-old murdered by father in Heseke 

  Less than a week after the murder of 13-year-old Eida, 15-year-old Aya Mihemed was murdered by her father in Heseke.
• Raqqa Social Justice Council says killing of young girl in Hesekê must be heavily punished 

  Members of the Raqqa Social Justice Council said that the murder of a girl named Eyde al-Seîdo in Hesekê deserves the heaviest punishment.
• Police detain 11 people, including 7 women in Nusaybin 

  Eleven people, including 7 women, including a Peace Mother, were detained in the house raids carried out by the police in Nusaybin, province of Mardin.
• Man kills his wife in Hewlêr  

  A woman named Ayşe Sezai, who lived in the city of Hewlêr in South Kurdistan, was murdered by her husband, Nevzat Sezai.
• Man wounds ex-wife, her mother and aunt 

  E.Y. wanted to kill E.K., whom she divorced two weeks ago. The man tried to kill his ex-wife with a cutting tool and also injured E.K.’s mother and aunt. The incident happened in Niksar.
• Women protest the brutal killing of 13-year-old in Heseke 

  Women in Manbij, Aleppo and Tirbespiye condemned the brutal execution of 13-year-old girl Eyde El Seido and called for the criminals to be sentenced.
• Anger after murder of 13-year-old girl in Heseke 

  In Heseke, a 13-year-old girl was executed by family members because she refused to agree to a forced marriage with her cousin. The crime is causing horror in the autonomous regions of northern and eastern Syria and is driving women into the streets.
• Lawyer Arslan: Femicides are political 

  Amed Bar Association Women's Rights Center member, lawyer Rozerin Arslan, drew attention to the increasing massacres of women and added that the "unjust reduction of sentences for provocation" granted to men is impunity and actually encourages violence.
• Fidan Doğan Women's Festival held in Paris 

  The women's culture festival, named after the KNK representative Fidan Doğan (Rojbîn) who was killed in France on 9 January 2013, took place in Paris for the fourth time.