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• Women’s workshop in Qamishlo: Silence kills! 

  A workshop against violence against women is taking place in the Qamishlo city today. The event is organised by the Women's Coordination of the Autonomous Administration in the Cizire region and is attended by women lawyers and human rights activists.
• HDP calls on women to take to the streets on 25 November 

  The HDP Women's Assembly announced that on 25 November women would take to streets against the AKP-MHP anti-women and occupation policies.
• Events to be held on 25 November in NE Syria announced 

  Women's organizations will dedicate this year 25 November events to Hevrin Xelef, slaughtered by the occupying Turkish state, to Amara Rênas, YPJ fighter and Aqide Ana, a member of the Women's Justice Assembly.
• THKC/Rural calls on women to stand up on 25 November 

  THKC/Rural Guerrilla Union called to fill the streets with women self-defense will on 25 November.
• Women's Council condemns brutal attack on female politician 

  The Syrian Women's Council condemned the savage attack on politician Lina Abdulvahab as an "inhuman and treacherous attack" and called on international women's organisations to take action.
• YJK-E calls on women to join actions to be held on 25 November 

  YJK-E called on all women to claim the women's revolution in Rojava on 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
• Jineoloji day in Wales 

  On Saturday a full immersion on Jineoloji in Newport will be organised by Kurdish Solidarity Cymru together with Jineoloji Committee Europe.
• Women protest Turkish invasion in Paris 

  Worldwide solidarity with the people of Rojava resisting Turkish invasion.
• Kongra Star dedicates 25 November to three revolutionary women 

  Kongra Star has decided to dedicate the activities to be carried out between 25 November and 10 December to YPJ Amara, woman politician Hevrin Xelef and mother Aqide.
• Buldan: Women are standing up against violence! 

  HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan stressed the need to be united against violence towards women.
• Widat, an Assyrian fighter from the mountains of North Kurdistan 

  Widat Iso was a descendant of survivors of the Assyrian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. She died in 2015 defending her village in Til Temir against the ISIS.
• Seminar on 25 November at Berxwedan Camp in Shehba 

  A seminar on 25 November took place at Berxwedan Camp in northern Syria.
• Buldan: Trustees are a coup against women's politics 

  HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan, spoke at the roundtable titled 'Women in Local Government' organised by the HDP Women's Assembly in Istanbul.
• TJK-E to hold women's conference in Hannover 

  The TJK-E will hold a conference in Hannover on November 16 titled 'Violence against women is political'.
• 25 November: Paying tribute to the struggle of women in NE Syria 

  Kongra Star dedicates the actions on the occasion the International Day against Violence against Women which will take place between Nov 25thand Dec 10th, to their comrades Amara, Hevrîn and Dayê Aqîde.
• Kongra Star urges UN to play its role against Turkish invasion 

  The umbrella organisation of women called upon the UN to perform the role that they refused to play since the beginning of the crisis in Syria and to not sacrifice the destiny of the peoples for commercial deals.
• HDP and TJA women protesting femicide detained in Batman 

  At least 10 women from the HDP and TJA were taken into custody.
• “Women of Kurdistan should unite against the Turkish state” 

  The women’s delegation from South Kurdistan, currently in Rojava for solidarity with the resistance against invasion, called for all women from Kurdistan to unite against the Turkish state.
• YPJ pays tribute to Nupelda Bagok who fell in Serekaniye 

  Nupelda was in struggle to defend the values of the women’s revolution, said YPJ and reiterated their promise to all their martyrs that they will continue on their path.
• KBDH paid tribute to Aynur Ada, who fell martyr in Til Temir 

  The United Revolutionary Movement of Women (KBDH) paid tribute to Aynur Ada (Göze Altunöz), the Central Committee and Founding Member of DKP / BÖG who fell martyr in Til Temir.
• Women from South Kurdistan in Rojava for support 

  A delegation of women from South Kurdistan arrived in Rojava to support the resistance against the invasion.
• TJA: The AKP is targeting women 

  TJA pointed out that the AKP-MHP alliance is targeting the organized power of women with false accusations and said: "We will never surrender."
• Kongreya Star Spokeswoman: Invaders deliberately attack women 

  The Turkish invasion of northern Syria is accompanied by inhumane war crimes. Selva Ehmed from Serêkaniyê says that the attacks of the occupying forces are deliberately directed against the women's movement.
• The Council of Jinwar: We are here, in our homeland 

  "Every place where ecological democratic life is growing is our land. Every system where there is a plurality of nations, languages, cultures and beliefs is our system. All people who are fighting for these rights are with us."
• Open letter from Kongra Star to UN Secretary General 

  Women living in North and East Syria and the Rojava region urge the Secretary-General finally to play the role that the UN has been unwilling to play from the beginning of the Syria crisis.