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• Mexican Chamber of Deputies increases penalties for femicide 

  The Mexican Chamber of Deputies will impose a penalty of 10 to 18 years in jail against those who commit sexual abuse of a minor.
• HDP Women's Council meets leader of Tunisian Women's Association 

  Representatives of the HDP Women's Council met in Ankara with Yosra Fraves, the chairperson of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women.
• Protest against racist gynecologist in Hakkari 

  In the state hospital of Hakkari in Northern Kurdistan a racism scandal is looming. Hundreds of Kurdish women are reporting racist treatment by a doctor and coercion to terminate their pregnancy.
• Susan Mohammed from Bashur is one of ATHENA40's candidates  

  Susan Mohammed Arif, from South Kurdistan, is among the 40 candidates of this year's ATHENA40, which every two years select the 40 most innovative and influential women worldwide.
• Kurdish woman claimed to have committed suicide in Berlin 

  It was claimed that Huriye Uçar, who was subjected to family pressure in Berlin, committed suicide.
• YPJ: We will defend the philosophy of leader Apo 

  The YPJ condemned the international conspiracy against Abdullah Öcalan.
• KJK: 15 February is the biggest conspiracy against women 

  The KJK Coordination denounced the international 15 February conspiracy against Abdullah Öcalan, stating that they will "never accept it". KJK added Öcalan is "the true friend of women."
• YPJ fighter Nûcan Cuma martyred in Serêkaniyê 

  YPJ announced the martyrdom of Nûcan Cuma in the resistance against the Turkish invasion of Serêkaniyê.
• Women will stand up against violence on 14 February 

  One billion women worldwide have been raped or harassed. Women refuse to assume passively this violence. The One Billion Rising campaign called on women to get on their feet and protest on February 14.
• TJK-E calls on women to join march in Strasbourg on 15 February 

  TJK-E condemned the 15 February conspiracy against Kurdish people's leader Öcalan and urged people, especially women, to join the march in Strasbourg on 15 February.
• Women's centres in the Washokani camp support female refugees 

  In the Washokani camp for displaced persons from the Turkish occupation zone in northern Syria, two women's centres have been set up. They offer female refugees a space to maintain their self-organisation and revolution.
• How state repression promotes violence against women 

  Every day in Turkey, women are murdered by men from their personal environment. The TJA fights against violence against women. Due to state repression, victims of violence shy away from contacting the women's movement.
• KJK calls on women to practice self-defense and organise 

  All women should definitely oppose laws such as child marriage, or forced marriage imposed on girls, KJK said.
• Ertaş: The State fears women's organization 

  Cansu Ertaş from the Women's Platform in Ankara talks about the state's fear of women's organisation and sharply criticises the misogynist policies of the Erdoğan regime.
• Van airport executive promoted despite sexual harassment charge 

  Yaşar Saydut was detained with allegations of harassment and sexual assault when he was airport executive in Hakkari and now has been appointed to Van DHMI Directorate.
• Taşdemir: Special policies against women implemented in Kurdistan 

  Taşdemir spoke to ANF about the issue of violence against women and the women's policies of the fascist AKP-MHP alliance.
• Report says at least 27 women murdered by men in January 

  The ‘We Will Stop Femicide Platform’ said that at least 27 women were murdered by men in January.
• Women in Athens condemn murder of Evin Ekrem 

  Hundreds of women in Athens condemned the murder of Kurdish woman refugee Evin Ekrem Ali.
• Decline in suicidal tendencies among women in Kobanê 

  In Kobanê, significantly fewer women attempted suicide in 2019 than in previous years. The prevention efforts of the Kurdish women's umbrella organisation Kongreya Star are clearly having an effect.
• Ayşe Gökkan elected new spokeswoman of the TJA 

  Kurdish activist Ayşe Gökkan has been elected the new spokeswoman of the women's movement TJA. At the two-day conference in Amed, the expansion of the women's struggle was discussed.
• TJK-E condemns murder of Kurdish woman in Lavrio 

  TJK-E strongly condemned the murder of a Kurdish woman from Rojava in the city of Lavrio. The woman was killed in front of her children by her husband.
• PAJK commemorates Viyan Soran 

  Fourteen years ago guerrilla fighter Viyan Soran burned herself to death in protest against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan. The Kurdish women's party PAJK commemorates her with an obituary.
• Event on the role of women in North and East Syria 

  On the initiative of the group "Schwerin for Rojava", Hamburg ethnologist Anja Flach spoke in Schwerin on "democratic confederalism" in Rojava and its struggle for survival against the Turkish jihadist invasion.
• Conference in Amed: No free society without women's freedom 

  "We are women, we exist for our freedom and we fight for change" is the motto of a two-day conference of the women's movement TJA in Amed. Without women's freedom there can be no free society, it was said in the opening speech.
• Memorial for Sara, Rojbin and Ronahi in Berlin 

  A memorial event was held in Berlin for the three Kurdish politicians murdered in Paris in 2013.