Tag: Women’s rights

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk issued a press briefing on Friday expressing deep concern over the recent ...

Afghan b-girl (breakdancer) Manizha Talash has been disqualified from the Olympic breaking (breakdancing) competition after displaying a cape with the ...

Kurdish and other political activists protested against the death sentences of Kurdish women’s activists Pakhshan Azizi and Sharifeh Mohammadi outside ...

The Progressive Alliance's Gender Equality Working Group, comprising women from 27 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has ...

Eight women have been murdered in six cities across Turkey within one 24-hour period, sparking urgent calls for action against ...

Six women have died under suspicious circumstances in Kurdish-majority Cizre (Cizîr), Şırnak (Şirnex), in southeast Turkey over four months, prompting ...

The Turkish government is facing a backlash for its proposal on the 9th Judicial Reform Package, which will restrict women’s ...

A Kurdish journalist has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment by an Iranian revolutionary court, having been tried on a ...