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Free Press for Free Women – 4th week of Global Action Month
The last week of the Global Action Month was all around the Freedom of press and reporting the truth. False information is widely spread in times of war and we see a special war being fought around pictures and information. The Turkish state is using and spreading false information and it has become more important than ever to investigate and report on it. Although being an international war crime, journalists …
We are all Tishreen! – 3rd week of Global Action Month
The third week of global action has just ended, in which dozens of women’s organizations around the world took to the streets to support the resistance of Tishreen dam and to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the liberation of the city of Kobanê from Daesh occupation. In fact, the escalation of war in Northeast Syria has made the celebration of the anniversary extremely relevant because today the democratic forces are …
International women’s open letter for a democratic Syria based on women’s freedom
International women’s open letter for a democratic Syria based on women’s freedom to António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Sima Sami Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, António Luís Santos da Costa, President of the European Council, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the Arab League, Since the fall of the Assad regime in Syria on December 8, 2024, discussions have been underway …
Interview: “Kobanê was like Stalingrad” – YPG commander of the battle for Kobanê from Lower Class Magazine
We translated an interview from the German Lower Class Magazine that they made on the battle for Kobane with a YPG commander. “When I think about what I experienced now, it feels like I’m remembering a movie. I sometimes wonder if it all really happened like that” This is certainly not the first time you have heard these words. You come across them again and again, in books with imaginary …
Trust in women not in states – 2nd week of Global Action Month
Global action weeks in January “Women Defend Rojava” has called for global weeks of action in January. Under the heading “We are not silent! We will defend the women’s revolution in Rojava!” the campaign aims to draw public attention to the events in northern and eastern Syria through numerous actions. It is important to support the people of Syria in building a democratic system instead of simply appointing new rulers. …
With the unity of women we will build a democratic Syria
On January 7, 2025, Kongra Star held a consultative women’s forum on the role of women in a new Syria. More than 500 hundred women from various organizations and from different ethnic and cultural groups participated and discussed the role of women for a democratic Syria. The meeting ended with a final declaration of all the participants. This is the final declaration: Final declaration of the consultative women’s forum on …
Statement of Free Women’s Foundation in Syria
The women’s foundation Wjas did a Statement on the current Situation: “[…] we, as the Free Women’s Foundation in Syria, support the hands and voices that have risen in condemnation and protest against the statements of the Islamist Aisha al-Dabs. We perceive her statements as an attack against the achieved gains. Therefore we take this opportunity to call for the broadest forms of solidarity with women in Syria. We call …
Call for: Global Action Weeks for the Women’s Revolution!
Global call for January 2025 for feminist action weeks: We won´t remain silent! We defend the women’s revolution in Rojava! Women’s liberation is the heart of a democratic Syria!#TrustInWomenNotStates For weeks, a war has been raging against the Democratic Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria. The Turkish army is threatening Kobanê with tanks and bombing it with drones and warplanes, while the fighters of the Turkish-controlled SNA are attacking …