WOMEN

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• 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.
• 76-year-old to remain in prison despite deteriorating health 

  Tarsus State Hospital issued a scandalous report for 76-year-old Kurdish woman jailed in the district, arguing that there is no danger to the seriously ill prisoner.
• Women build their own system in Northern Syria 

  In preparation for their congress planned for August, conferences of the women's movement Kongreya Star are taking place in all the cities of Northern Syria.
• Martyr Viyan Amara remembered in Kobanê 

  The young teacher gave her life for freedom.
• TJA calls on UN to recognize August 3 as Global Day of Action 

  TJA stated that ISIS was defeated under the lead of women after they committed the massacre of 2014 in Shengal, and called on the UN for the International Day of Action Against Femicide and Genocide.
• 120 women and 7 children killed in six months in Turkey 

  Violence against women and children is increasing under the AKP rule.
• YPJ hands over female ISIS member and her children to the US 

  YPJ General Relations Bureau handed over female ISIS member US citizen Samantha Sally to US authorities along with her children on her request.
• Yazidi Women call for International Action Day on 3 August 

  On 3 August 2014 DAESH mercenaries massacred Yazidis in Shengal.
• Kongreya Star goes to Congress in Heseke 

  The First Congress will discuss things the women’s organisation has done and what needs to be done.
• Women members are around 13% within DAESH 

  An English Centre report offers a study of the members of DAESH.
• Founding member of FEMEN found dead in Paris 

  A founding member of the prominent protest group Femen, Oksana Shachko, has died in Paris.
• Hand in hand with the Women’s Revolution 

  "Afrin is and will remain a part of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. It will be free again and it is the task of all the freedom-loving people all around the world to fight for it!"
• Domestic violence against women in Iran increased by 20 percent 

  A mix of culture and law allow proliferation of domestic violence.
• PYD member: Our goal is to reach all women 

  PYD member Şerife Hisên spoke of the importance of the new women's organisation.
• Agricultural women’s cooperative in Tatvan 

  In Tatvan, women who returned to their villages evicted in the 1990s set up an agricultural cooperative.
• PYD Women elect Women's Council 

  The foundational congress of the PYD women's organisation was held in Rimelan.
• PYD Co-chair: Women lead the way to a new Middle East 

  Speaking the the PYD Women Congress, Hiso said Syrian crisis can be solved through dialogue.
• PYD Women’s Congress kicks off in Rimêlan 

  Women are discussing their role in shaping the new society.