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• YPJ Congress: Defense is more valuable than bread and water 

  The main topics discussed in the conference were: the political and military process, 7 years of war practice, restructuring.
• Two Kurdish women in Iran died as hospitals refused to treat them 

  In the last 10 days two Kurdish women lost their lives in Iran when hospitals refused to accept them.
• Young women visited Leyla Güven in hospital 

  Güven told the young women: “Spring came to Kurdistan with the voice of Mr. Öcalan. This year we can celebrate this holiday because Mr. Öcalan's voice has reached us.”
• Nora Cortiñas: We have to monitor that isolation really ends 

  In Argentina the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo meet every week in Mayo Square. They have been doing this for 42 years. A peaceful action, like that of the Saturday Mothers in Istanbul. They demand justice for their sons, and the 30,000 disappeared people.
• One day school of Jineology in Eindhoven 

  The International Free Women's Foundation (IFWF) has opened a one-day school of Jineology in Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
• Women solve all their issues in their own assemblies 

  Rimele Women’s Assembly produces solutions to all issues women in the neighborhood have and enables the women to build a future with their efforts in various areas.
• Women met to prepare the 15th edition of the Zilan Festival 

  Women responded to the call of the Women's Peace Bureau (CENI) and the Kurdish Women's Movement of Germany (YJKE) and met in Cologne, to discuss the preparations for the Zilan Women's Festival on 22 June.
• Rojava: Organization Sara fights against patriarchal violence 

  The Sara organization stands for help and solidarity for women exposed to patriarchal violence in the Euphrates region in Rojava. So far the organization has been able to reach a very large number of women.
• Femen action in Paris: Stop Feminicide! 

  The women's organization Femen protested in Paris against feminicide. Activists commemorated the sixty women who have been murdered in France since the beginning of the year.
• Kurdish Literacy Courses for mothers in Kobanê 

  The women's movement Kongreya Star has started literacy classes for mothers in communities in Kobanê.
• Women’s economy getting stronger with cooperatives 

  3 women raising sheep in the cooperative they founded in the Tenuriye town in Qamishlo are strengthening women’s economy.
• Mothers hold vigil in front of Gebze Hospital 

  Mothers who continued to hold vigils for the prisoners on hunger strikes for weeks in Gebze despite intense police brutality and bans are now protesting in front of the hospital for their children.
• Peace Mothers: The resistance continues 

  Mothers vowed that their struggle will continue.
• Saturday Mothers in Galatasaray on 24th anniversary 

  Saturday Mothers are entering the 24th year of their struggle. The mothers called on the state and said, “We will prevail, you will lose.”
• Saturday Mothers: 24 years of fight for justice 

  Twenty-four years ago, the Saturday Mothers took to the streets for the first time in Istanbul to protest the enforced disappearance state practice.
• Day 47 of vigil by mothers of prisoners on hunger strike in Gebze 

  Families of prisoners in Gebze are on day 47 of their vigil which they say will continue until the isolation is ended.
• Mothers: The struggle will continue until the isolation ends 

  Mothers gathered in the HDP Bahcelievler district offices and said they will continue their struggle in front of the prisons until the isolation ends.
• Talk on the Kurdish Women’s Movement 

  A talk titled The Kurdish Women’s Movement: On Revolution, Militarism and Body Politics will address the history of the Kurdish women's liberation movement.
• Women in London protest attacks on mothers 

  Women in London protested the Turkish police attacks on the mothers of prisoners on hunger strike.
• Sit-in action by mothers of prisoners on hunger strike in Van 

  Seven thousand political prisoners are on an indefinite hunger strike across Turkey and North Kurdistan against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• Protest against isolation in Munich and Munster 

  Protests and actions to support the hunger strike and death fast resistance are being organised all around Europe. 
• Mothers of prisoners on hunger strike protest in many cities 

  In many cities of northern Kurdistan and Turkey, mothers of political prisoners have taken to the streets despite police blockade to draw attention to the hunger strike against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• Women in Giessen held action in solidarity with hunger strikers 

  The Berchem Women's Council in Giessen promoted an action in solidarity with the hunger strikers.
• Mothers attacked in Gebze press charges 

  Mothers of prisoners attacked by the police in Gebze have pressed charges and said their protests will continue.
• Women from Paris took over Vigil for Öcalan 

  The Freedom for Öcalan Vigil, the longest protest organised by Kurds in Europe, has been taken over by a new group on its 361st week.