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• 36 thousand signatures for Pakshan Azizi and Sharifeh Mohammadi 

  While the campaign against the death sentences given to Kurdish journalist Pakshan Azizi and activist Sharifeh Mohammadi in Iran received support from all over the world, the Women's Press Union announced that 36 thousand signatures have been collected.
• European Women's Solidarity condemns the deadly Turkish attack against journalists 

  European Women's Solidarity stated that they will keep the memories of the murdered journalists alive in their struggle, saying, “Let the fascist AKP-MHP government know that with every person murdered, we stand up stronger again.”
• YPJ: Killing journalists means silencing the voice of truth 

  “The history of Kurdish journalism is intertwined with the history of the Kurdish people’s struggle. The free women’s media will never surrender,” said the YPJ after the deadly Turkish attack against female journalists in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
• Women's organizations in Turkey fear increase in femicides if the government's new plans approved 

  Women's organizations in Turkey fear an increase in femicides in light of the plans of the Ministry of Family and Social Services.
• TJK-E: Attacks will neither silence the free press nor stop the Kurdish freedom struggle 

  TJK-E commemorated with love and respect the two journalists murdered by the Turkish state in Sulaymaniyah yesterday and said: “These attacks will neither silence the free press nor stop the Kurdish freedom struggle.”
• RAJIN: We will continue to struggle on the path of our fallen friends 

  “The struggle of Gulistan Tara and all the martyrs of the free press must continue to pursue the truth and result in victory. As the women's free press, we will continue to struggle on the path of our fallen friends,” RAJIN said.
• DBP Women's Assembly: Free press members will be the voice of truth in every way 

  DBP Women's Assembly condemned the Turkish attack against free press members in Sulaymaniyah and said, “The labourers of the free press tradition, in the footsteps of the truth, will be the voice of the truth in every way."
• New femicide in Urfa 

  A man called Xelfetî, G. Ç. killed his wife with a firearm in Urfa.
• ‘The YPJ's presence in the region gives women confidence’ 

  Stating that the Damascus government and the Turkish state are behind the attacks on Deir ez-Zor, YPJ Hajin Province Commander Axin Qamişlo stated that the YPJ’s presence in the region gives confidence to women.
• Co-mayor of Muş: We govern the city with women 

  Co-Mayor of Muş Municipality Tuba Sayılgan stated that they will implement many projects from women's employment to counselling centres and said that they govern the city together with women.
• Demonstration for Yazidi women in front of the UN building in Beirut 

  During the genocidal attacks on Shengal on 3 August 2014, ISIS kidnapped more than 6 thousand Yazidi women and children, reduced them to the status of slaves and sold them in markets.
• YPJ expresses solidarity with protesters in India 

  The Women's Defence Units in Northern and Eastern Syria expressed solidarity with the protests in India.
• Rojava University expresses support for women's resistance in India 

  Rojava University Women's Assembly and the Faculty of Medicine expressed their support for women's resistance in India.
• Yazidi women support the ‘No to the death penalty’ campaign 

  Growing support for the campaign against death sentences against Pakshan Azizi and activist Sharifeh Mohammadi in Iran.
• PYD Women's Assembly Congress: “We must unite to protect our people” 

  The Democratic Union Party (PYD) is holding the 3rd Women's Assembly Congress in Hesekê with the participation of 400 delegates. PYD Co-Chair Asya Abdullah said, “We women must unite to protect both ourselves and our people.”
• PYD Women's Assembly congress kicks off today in Hesekê 

  The PYD Women's Assembly will hold its 3rd Congress today in the city of Hesekê in the Cizre Canton.
• Kongra Star expresses solidarity with the resistance of women in India 

  "Jin Jiyan Azadî – Day by day we defend ourselves and life," said Kongra Star, the umbrella organization of the women’s movement in North-East Syria, in a message of solidarity with the struggle of women in India.
• HRW: Sweeping bill imperils women’s, children’s rights in Iraq 

  If passed, the amendment would have disastrous effects on women’s and girls’ rights guaranteed under international law by allowing marriage for girls as young as 9.
• Kurdish women's movements in solidarity with Indian women  

  The Kurdish women's movements TJA and TAJÊ expressed their solidarity with Indian women who took to the streets in protest at the rape and murder of a woman and also displayed a banner reading ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’.
• Women in India take to the streets with ‘Jin Jiyan, Azadi’ banner 

  Protesting the murder of a woman after she was raped, women in India unfurled a banner reading ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’.
• Iraqi Women's Conference issues call to Baghdad government 

  The 3rd Iraqi Women's Conference held in Baghdad on 25 July made important decisions on the anniversary of the Shengal Massacre that took place on 3 August 2014. Now the women issued a call to the Baghdad government.
• Kurdish women express solidarity with the women of Afghanistan 

  Three years after the Taliban took power, the Kurdish women's movement TJA honoured the struggle of Afghan women and said: “Despite the borders imposed by nation-state fascism, we will continue to stand side by side.”
• Three femicides in one night in Ankara and Istanbul 

  Three women were murdered by men in Ankara and Istanbul on Thursday night.
• Basque women's groups and organisations join campaign "No to executions! Yes to free life!" 

  Various women's groups and organisations in the Basque Country have joined the campaign “No to executions! Yes to a free life! JIN JIYAN AZADI."
• Women at TJA and DBP workshops: “'We will not submit” 

  Women who participated in the "special war" workshops organised by the Free Women's Movement and Democratic Regions Party in Bozova, Suruç and Halfeti districts of Urfa gave a strong message of solidarity and resistance.