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• Women demand freedom for Öcalan 

  Syria Youth Council co-chair, Albin Ehmed said young women will step up initiative for Kurdish People's Leader Öcalan.
• Kurdish women promoted conference in Russia 

  Kurdish women in Russia step up campaign 'Freedom for Öcalan'
• Third Women’s Council opened in Raqqa 

  It is the third office of this kind to be opened in the Raqqa city to promote the role of free women in free society.
• Rojbin in 50 photos 

  “Who dared murder Rojbin?” The story of 50 photos starts with this question.
• Yusif: The Rojava Revolution is spreading everywhere 

  Speaking at the Third Young Women's Union (YJC) Congress, Foza Yousif said: "The Women's Revolution, which started in Rojava, is now implemented in Raqqa, Tabqa and Deir ez-Zor.”
• Women Journalists’ Platform remembers Deniz Fırat 

  Four years ago, Kurdish journalist Deniz Firat was killed in an attack by the ISIS in the Makhmur refugee camp in southern Kurdistan on August 8, 2014.
• Young women in Northern Syria organize themselves 

  In Rojava, the third congress of "Young Women's Union" (Yekîtiya Jinên Ciwan, YJC) has begun.
• YPJ in solidarity with abortion advocates of Argentina 

  The YPJ have expressed their solidarity with the pro-abortion advocates in Argentina.
• Kongreya Star is meeting women after Congress in Shehba 

  Several meetings are being organised in Shehba to share the Congress final documents.
• IHD's Onaran: Women prisoners are facing severe conditions 

  IHD Prison Commission member Hatice Onaran said that ill prisoners are under severe conditions.
• Two-days seminar on Jineology in Sulaymaniyah 

  The role of women and the meaning of freedom and a new life through the lens of Jineology.
• Women's Office opens first shop in Raqqa 

  The project is the first to be implemented and support women's economy in Raqqa.
• Women remember Shengal victims in Istanbul 

  Women in Istanbul showed their solidarity and support with Yazidi women.
• Yazidi Women from Afrin: We’ll struggle to liberate home 

  Yazidi women remember the genocide on August 3, 2014.
• YJŞ: Organized women are the best response to the genocide 

  Shengal Women’s Units said, “We remember with respect all the martyrs of the resistance and the martyrs of the genocide in the person of the Shengal resistance martyrs Berivan, Nujiyan, Tekoşin and Zilan.”
• The prison for Yazidi women in Raqqa 

  After the occupation of Raqqa, the "Islamic State" (IS) seized private homes and used them as a prison for the Yazidis kidnapped from Shengal four years ago.
• 3 August, the day humanity was lost 

  Thousands of Yazidi men and women were massacred, captured, turned into slaves. The stories of the survivors.
• New Women’s Office opened in Raqqa 

  Women are reclaiming their role within society through a number of organisations and initiatives.
• Flormar workers enter their 80th day of protest 

  The workers were sacked after joining a trade union.
• Kongreya Star launches campaign for Öcalan in Kobanê Canton 

  The initiative will be launched on 2 August with a march.
• YJŞ fighters: We will avenge Yazidi women 

  YJŞ fighters say they will avenge the Yazidi women who were abducted, sold into slavery and murdered in Shengal.
• Woman abducted 8 times by gangs in Afrin speaks out  

  A woman named H.S. who has been abducted by the Turkish army and their allied gangs 8 times and released on ransom spoke out about what she went through.
• Kongreya Star conference kicks off in Qamishlo 

  In preparation for the congress planned for August, conferences of the women's movement Kongreya Star are taking place in all the cities of Northern Syria.
• Women and migration 

  Women refugees suffered more harassment.
• TJK-E calls on women of the world to solidarity with Shengal 

  On August 3, 2014, the Yazidi (Êzidî) people in Shengal were subjected to an attack by ISIS gangs in front of the whole world to see and faced a grand genocide.