Displaced women working at the Iştar Tandoor Cooperative in Til Temir voiced their messages for International Women’s Day, calling on the Turkish state to withdraw from their homeland.
Women in Manbij, Deir ez-Zor, Tabqa and Raqqa who were liberated from ISIS are waging an organized struggle against all forms of violence and social problems within the Zenobia Women's Gathering.
Hadiya Al-Ahmad, a resident of Deir ez-Zor, makes tea baskets along with her daughter, creating job opportunities for women.
With the aim of providing tree seeds to produce plants, the Women’s Environmental Platform and Kêzîyên Kesk [Green Tress] Association participated in a day of environmental volunteer work.
For the sixth consecutive year, farmers and residents in Afrin region, Northwest Syria, face heavy royalties and restrictions from Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA). These practices have intensified during this year’s olive harvest season, targeting local agriculture, trade, and resources, which form the backbone of Afrin’s economy.
64 years have passed since the Amouda cinema fire, killing 283 Kurdish schoolchildren. The cinema has been rebuilt in cooperation with the Municipalities Union of Jazira Canton and the Rojava Film Commune.
On October 23 and 24, Turkey has attacked 30 confirmed locations throughout NES, carrying out airstrikes targeting electricity, oil, and other civilian infrastructure. Many locations were hit several times.
The air strikes targeted factories, two bakeries, a health center, and Asayish (Internal Security Forces) checkpoints. Oil stations such as Awda, Tafla, and Suwaydiyah, along with power stations in Kobane and Amude that supply and service the cities were also hit.
This repeated targeting of vital and service facilities precipitates a humanitarian disaster in an area that is home to millions of people, who are already suffering from severe fuel and gas shortages as a result of Turkey’s repeated targeting of infrastructure facilities in previous years.
Residents in the city of Manbij, northern Syria, believe the city’s location between three areas of control made it strategically important.
The bakery project called “Tenûra Îştar” started by Kongra Star Economy Committee in Washokani camp aims to provide employment to displaced women living in the camp.
A naturopathy center was founded five years ago for the population of the self-governing districts in Aleppo. The employees research their grandmothers' healing methods and the patients are satisfied.
A women’s bakery opened by the Afrin-Shahba Cooperative aims to provide employment to displaced women of Afrin.
Mesopotamia Foundation has worked for a decade with Kurdish speakers in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran to revitalise the language and folklore. It aims to develop a multilingual university where students can learn in their mother tongue, primarily Kurdish. On Kurdish Language Day, Board Member Bahoz Baran presents the foundation’s achievements to date.
