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 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.


Call for urgent action against Taliban misogyny
Jinha - Womens News Agency - August 6 , 2024
<<Call for urgent action against Taliban misogyny in Afghanistan
The Purple Saturdays Movement has issued a statement calling on the international community and the United Nations to take an urgent action against the Taliban misogyny in Afghanistan.
News Center- The Taliban's return to power in August 2021 has led to a severe rollback of women's rights in Afghanistan. Reports of sexual violence, including rape by Taliban members, have increased alarmingly. Forced marriages, particularly among girls under the age of 18, have become more common, perpetuating cycles of abuse and inequality. The Purple Saturdays Movement issued a statement on social media platform X, calling on the international community and the United Nations to take an urgent action against the Taliban's misogyny in Afghanistan. "In the three years since the Taliban regained control in Afghanistan, the group has become notorious internationally for its egregious treatment of women. The Taliban's rule has been marked by rampant misogyny, violence against women, and systemic efforts to strip women of their rights and freedoms. However, the response of the international community and the United Nations to the Taliban's atrocities has been concerningly inadequate," the movement said in the statement on Sunday. The Taliban's return to power has led to a severe rollback of women's rights in Afghanistan, the statement said. "Reports of sexual violence, including rape by Taliban members, have increased alarmingly. Forced marriages, particularly involving girls under the age of 18, have become more common, perpetuating cycles of abuse and inequality. This climate of fear and oppression has also led to a tragic rise in suicides among women, who see no escape from the brutality imposed upon them. "Additionally, the Taliban's harsh and repressive policies have driven many women into drug addiction as a means of coping with the unbearable conditions of their daily lives. The combination of these factors is creating a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan, with women bearing the brunt of the Taliban's oppressive regime."
Role of international community
"The international community and the United Nations have not done enough to confront the Taliban and protect Afghanistan women," the movement added. "Despite clear evidence of human rights violations, the global response has been tepid, with some nations even continuing to engage diplomatically with the Taliban. This approach not only legitimizes the Taliban's rule but also emboldens them to continue their abuses without fear of repercussions."
In the statement, the movement calls for immediate and concrete actions from the international community.
The international community should "impose sanctions, implement targeted sanctions against Taliban leaders and entities that are directly involved in human rights abuses, provide robust support to Afghanistan civil society organizations working to protect women's rights and offer services to survivors of violence, severe diplomatic ties with the Taliban until they demonstrate a genuine commitment to respecting human rights, particularly those of women and girls and establish an independent international body to monitor and report on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, ensuring accountability for violations." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/call-for-urgent-action-against-taliban-misogyny-in-afghanistan-35501?page=1

Jinha - Womens News Agency - August 6 , 2024
<<ISIG: 144 workers died in work-related accidents in July
144 workers, including 10 women and 12 children, died in work-related accidents last month, according to the report released by the Laborer Health and Occupational Safety Assembly (İSİG).
News Center- The Laborer Health and Occupational Safety Assembly (ISIG) has released its July 2024 report on how many workers died in Turkiye.
At least 144 workers, including 10 women and 12 children, died in work-related accidents in July 2024, the report said. Of those who died in work-related accidents in July, 24% of workers died in work-related traffic crashes, 19% died after they were trapped under debris and 13% died after falling from heights, according to the report. 28% of the workers, who died in work-related accidents in July, were working in the agriculture/forestry sector, 15% in the construction sector and 14% in the transportation sector.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/IsIg-144-workers-died-in-work-related-accidents-in-july-35499?page=1


5 detained for dancing halay
Jinha - Womens News Agency - August 6 , 2024
<<5 detained in Osmaniye for dancing halay to Kurdish music
Turkish police conducted dawn house raids in Osmaniye, detaining five people, including DEM Party district co-chairs, for dancing halay to Kurdish music at a wedding party.
News Center- Turkish police conducted dawn house raids in Osmaniye on Tuesday. People's Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Osmaniye Center district Co-chairs Sevgi Aydın and Faruk Kahraman, DEM Party member Hakan Kahraman and two unidentified people were detained in the house raids reportedly for dancing halay to a Kurdish music at a wedding party in the city.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/5-detained-in-osmaniye-for-dancing-halay-to-kurdish-music-35498?page=1


Protestbanner Men kill 21 women
Jinha - Womens News Agency - August 6 , 2024
<<Jinnews: Men kill 21 women in July
Men killed 21 women and four children, 22 women and two children died under suspicious circumstances in July, Jinnews, an all-women news agency based in Amed (Diyarbakır), said in its July 2024 report on femicide in Turkiye.
News Center- Jinnews, an all-women news agency based in Amed (Diyarbakır), has released its July 2024 report on femicide in Turkiye by compiling news from local and national newspapers, news websites and news agencies. Men killed 21 women and four children, 22 women and two children died under suspicious circumstances in July, the report said. In July, one women was killed by her estranged husband, four by their ex-husband, two by their sons, one by her partner, one by her brother, one by man she did not know, six by their husbands, one by her father, one by man she knew, two by their male relatives, according to the report. The report also shares the list of the cities where women were killed. Two women were killed in Xarpet(Elazıg), one in Kütahya, one in Adana, three in Istanbul, three in Malatya, one in Karaman, one in Semsur (Adıyaman), one in Siirt, one in Erzurum, one in Giresun, one in Kayseri, one in Kocaeli, one in Edirne, one in Gumuşhane and two in Mersin.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/jinnews-men-kill-21-women-in-july-35497?page=1

Jinha - Womens News Agency - August 6 , 2024
<<Iraq decides to dissolve three political parties
The Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq has decided to dissolve three political parties representing the will of the Kurdish and Yazidi people.
News Center- The Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq decided Monday to dissolve three political parties, the Freedom Movement (Tevgera Azadi), the Yazidi Freedom and Democracy Party (PADE) the Democratic Struggle Front representing the will of the Kurdish and Yazidi people in Iraq. The council ordered the closure of the offices of the three political parties and seizure of their assets. The decision came after the 10th anniversary of the genocide committed by ISIS against the Yazidi community. The decision has paved the way for the attacks on the gains and will of the Yazidi community, activists said.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/iraq-decides-to-dissolve-three-political-parties-35496?page=1


NADA
Jinha - Womens News Agency - August 6 , 2024
<<NADA: We are in solidarity with Yazidi, Afghan, Sudanese and Palestinian women
"We are in solidarity with Yazidi, Afghan, Sudanese and Palestinian women," said the statement released by the NADA, calling on international organizations to put pressure on Iran to revoke the death sentences against activists.
News Center- The Democratic Women's Alliance in the Middle East and North Africa (NADA) has released a written statement on the genocidal attacks targeting Yazidi, Afghan, Sudanese and Palestinian women, stressing that they are in solidarity with them. The statement said that sexual violence, assault, rape and slavery "have become an integral part of the policy of abuse and revenge against Sudanese women, who led the Kandake of the Sudanese Revolution." Condemning the genocidal attacks on the Palestinian women and the death sentences against labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi and journalist Pakhshan Azizi in Iran, the NADA said in the statement:
"The relevant countries, institutions and international organizations claiming that they defend human rights and women’s rights never lift a finger. We call on relevant international institutions and organizations to break their silence and take immediate action to stop violations against women and hold those who commit genocidal attacks and war crimes against women and recognize the crimes committed against women in Afghanistan, Sudan, Gaza, particularly against Yazidi women as a genocide. They must put pressure on Iran to revoke the death sentences against women activists." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/nada-we-are-in-solidarity-with-yazidi-afghan-sudanese-and-palestinian-women-35495?page=1


Etiya Şexmus
Jinha - Womens News Agency - August 6 , 2024 - by EBIR MUHAMED
<<Women of Beyandur: The Turkish attacks affect our lives
The Turkish attacks targeting the critical infrastructure of Jazira Canton of North and East Syria make the lives of women in the village of Beyandur unbearable.
Qamishlo- Since 2022, the Turkish state has been targeting the critical infrastructure of Jazira Canton, one of the seven cantons of North and East Syria, preventing the local people from accessing their basic needs. The ongoing power and water outages and rising temperature make their lives unbearable. NuJINHA spoke to the women of Beyandur, a village of Qamishlo, who suffer from the ongoing power and water outages.
'We have had no water for days'
Etiya Şexmus, one of the women living in the village, reacted to the ongoing Turkish attacks and said, "Last year, the weather was better; we planted and grew all types of vegetables in summer. This year, we suffer from power and water outages due to the Turkish attacks targeting the critical infrastructure of the region. We have had no water for days. There are 80 families in the village and we could not plant vegetables this year due to the ongoing power and water outages and rising temperature."
'We have been subjected to the Turkish attacks'
The rising temperatures reduce streamflow, deepening the water crisis in the region. "We have fertile lands in the village; however, we have been subjected to the Turkish attacks since the beginning of the Rojava Revolution," Cemila Kendi said. "The Turkish state has cut off our water, making our lives unbearable. The decrease in streamflow due to rising temperatures has doubled our suffering. Some families have begun to use solar panels but some families cannot afford to buy solar panels." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/-35494


Hanife Arslan
Jinha - Womens News Agency - August 5 , 2024
<<Health of Hanife Arslan deteriorating
The health of sick prisoner Hanife Arslan (76) has been deteriorating, lawyer Jiyan Özkaplan said, stressing that Hanife Arslan has been transferred to hospital for 68 times and she has required her release seven times.
Van- Hanife Arslan (76) was sentenced to six years and three months in prison on charges of <membership in an illegal organization>. She has been serving her sentence since 2022 although Hanife Arslan suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes and hypertension. Her lawyer has required the supervised release for Hanife Arslan and other sick prisoner Makbule Ozer seven times; however, a Turkish court has rejected the request, citing the health report prepared by the Forensic Medicine Institution (ATK) saying, <She could stay in prison>. "The health of the two mothers has been deteriorating," said their lawyer, Jiyan Ozkaplan.
Hanife Arslan and Makbule Ozer support each other in order to meet their daily needs, Jiyan Ozkaplan said. "Hanife Arslan is an old woman and she often says 'I do not think I will get out of here alive'.> According to a presidential decree, if one person is old and sick, she/he must be released, "But Hanife Arslan has not been released although she is old and sick. The court rejects our request citing the report prepared by the ATK. The report prepared by the ATK is not an impartial and independent report."
'The Ministry accepts she is sick by sending a toilet'
Hanife Arslan also suffers from osteoporosis. "She cannot walk anymore. She has to use a wheelchair when I go to the prison to see her. The needs of Hanife Arslan and Makbule Ozer have been met by people held in their ward because they cannot meet their needs anymore. Hanife Arslan can hardly sleep at night due to hypertension. She believes that she will die in prison. The Ministry of Justice accepts that the two mothers are sick by sending a toilet (prisons in Turkey have squat toilets) to the prison for them. Even the wardens say, 'She should be released immediately'."
She transferred to hospital 68 times
People's Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) MPs applied to the Parliamentary Human Rights Investigation Commission about the health of Hanife Arslan. The General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses (an institution affiliated with the Turkish Ministry of Justice) sent a written response saying that the report prepared by the ATK was taken into consideration. According to the received reports, Hanife Arslan has been transferred to hospital from prison 68 times since 2022. Despite that, the Ministry of Justice has not rejected the request of her lawyer for her release.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/health-of-hanife-arslan-deteriorating-35485?page=1

Jinha - Womens News Agency - August 5 , 2024 - by HESNA MIHEMED
<<First aid training for women in Shahba
Kongra Star Health Committee in Shahba-Afrin Canton has started a 20-day first aid training course teaching women critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency.
Shahba- On July 27, 2024, Kongra Star Health Committee in Shahba-Afrin Canton started a 20-day first aid course in Til Qireh, a village of Shahba's Ehrez, attended by 77 women. The women attending the course learn critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency such as what they should do when one person has a heart attack or breaks bones. Women should learn critical skills and how to manage an emergency because they live in a warzone, said Guneyi Mustafa, a member of the Health Committee.
'The region is subjected to attacks every day'
Speaking about why they started a first aid course, Guneyi Mustafa said, "We started this course to teach women critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency because our region is subjected to attacks every day. This course is a must for the women in the village. They learn what they should do when someone is injured or gets sick."
'We have learned critical skills'
"We have learned many critical skills at the course," said Henifa Iso (30), a course attendant. "We also learn what we should do when someone is injured or gets sick because we live in a warzone. The course is a great opportunity for us because we can help our children when they get sick."
'We learn how to deal with war conditions'
Eye Salih, another course attendant, told us that they felt happy to be able to attend the course. "This course is an opportunity for us to improve ourselves and learn critical skills. We learn how to deal with war conditions. What we have been learning at the course will be very important for us in the future." >>
Source incl. video:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/first-aid-training-for-women-in-shahba-35486?page=1


Siraz Hemo
Jinha - Womens News Agency - August 5 , 2024 - by ŞIRIN MIHEMED
<<Şiraz Hemo: We should unite to protect the gains of the revolution
The revolution in Rojava is targeted because it paves the way for women to represent the will of society, said Şiraz Hemo, coordinating member of Kongra Star. "We should unite to protect the gains of the revolution and achieve freedom."
Qamishlo- The revolution in Rojava that started in North and East Syria on July 19, 2012 has become a role model for the whole world, paving the way for women to participate in politics and decision-making positions in North and East Syria. "In the 21st century, everyone has realized that women lead their society," Şiraz Hemo, coordinating member of Kongra Star, said in an interview with NuJINHA. "Women now participate in decision-making positions and struggle to develop their society in northeastern Syria."
'Women have founded movements to achieve gender equality'
Women struggle for freedom all around the world, Şiraz Hemo said, adding, "Throughout history, women have founded organizations and movements to achieve gender equality. Each woman represents a stage or milestone on the path to women's freedom. Kongra Star struggles for women's freedom in North and East Syria. Women led the revolution in Rojava to develop their society and achieve freedom for women."
'Women's political participation must be strengthened'
Women were prevented from participating in politics before the Rojava Revolution, Şiraz Hemo stressed. "Since the revolution, women have been actively participating in politics and decision-making positions thanks to the system based on democracy and equality built by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)." she said, recalling how women fought ISIS, the most dangerous group in the world."
'We should unite'
All the states and regimes do politics according to their own interests, Şiraz Hemo said. "In North and East Syria, women have proven their existence by holding decision-making positions in political parties and all other organizations. Women have an important role in resolving the Syrian crisis and building peace. Our aim is to reach all women in the region and all around the world. The revolution in Rojava is targeted because it paves the way for women to represent the will of society. Therefore, we, as women, should unite to protect the gains of the revolution and achieve freedom." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/Siraz-hemo-we-should-unite-to-protect-the-gains-of-the-revolution-35487?page=1

France 25 - August 3, 2024 - Video by: Sonia GHEZALI|Shahzaib WAHLAH
<<Women in Afghanistan gradually disappearing from public life
Women in Afghanistan are slowly disappearing from public life, a year after the Taliban retook control of the country and imposed a rigorous version of Islamic Sharia law. FRANCE 24's Shahzaib Wahlah and Sonia Ghezali report from Kabul.
Deprived of education, forced to wear the full veil, banned from politics and the media, women are gradually disappearing from public life in Afghanistan. The Taliban regime has put in place a rigorous version of Islamic Sharia law that leaves no room for women, who make up more than half of the population. A civil servant who spoke to FRANCE 24 on condition of anonymity says she has become little more than a shadow. Her husband is seriously ill and she was the sole breadwinner. "I liked my work, I could offer a good education to my children. But when they arrived I was forced to stay at home. And they cut my salary. I believe that the Taliban are the same as they were before. It is a dark regime." >>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/afghanistan/20220803-afghan-women-gradually-disappearing-from-public-life

France 25 - August 3, 2024 - By: Paul MILLAR
<<Afghan sister cyclists fly the flag of a fallen country at the Paris Olympics
From our Olympics correspondent in Paris - Fariba and Yulduz Hashimi fled Kabul after the city once again fell to the Taliban in 2021. Three years later, the sister cyclists are riding alongside one another in the 2024 Paris Olympics women's road race on Sunday, proudly bearing the black, red and green Afghan tricolour torn down by the country's new masters when they seized the capital.
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It's been a long road to Paris for the Hashimi sisters. Fariba and her sister Yulduz came to France as part of a team of six athletes who will be competing for Afghanistan in the 2024 Paris Olympics. The team is made up of three men and three women - a deliberate show of equality in the face of the Taliban's fierce opposition to women's involvement in professional sports. Since retaking power in 2021, Kabul's new masters have sought to excise women from public life, restricting their access to school and higher education as well as the workplace. So perhaps it is not surprising that the Taliban refuses to recognise the women athletes on the team, which was assembled following talks between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Afghanistan's own National Olympic Committee-in-exile. Taliban officials have been banned by the IOC from attending the Games, and no country has recognised them as Afghanistan's legitimate government. Yulduz and Fariba were in Kabul when the capital fell, narrowly escaping the besieged city with the help of Italian world champion cyclist Alessandra Cappellotto, who helped them and a handful of other cyclists board a plane to northern Italy. Speaking outside the Olympic Village in the suburb of Saint-Denis northeast of Paris, Fariba said that seeing the Taliban return to power had been a staggering moment. "When the Taliban [retook power] in my country I was in Afghanistan - after three or four days they had taken control all over Afghanistan," she said. "I wasn't just worried for myself, I was worried about my people, I was worried about everything. Because the first time they moved into my country [in 1996] they stopped everything for women, everything - school, sport. What is left for women? They closed everything." Even before the Taliban marched once again into Kabul following the withdrawal of NATO and US forces after two decades of military occupation, the Hashimi sisters faced an uphill struggle to be accepted as professional cyclists. Growing up in the conservative Faryab province on the border of Turkmenistan, the two women had had to keep their passion a secret even from their own families.
"I never thought that I would become a professional cyclist," Fariba said. "When I went to race for the first time, my family never saw that I was in the race because I wore a hijab, I put on sunglasses - nobody saw that it was Fariba and Yulduz. I raced three times in my city, and each time my sister and I won. Then after my second race, some journalists took my photo - and my family saw my face." Although their family has since become a source of support for the two sisters, Fariba said that the sight of two young women practising in the streets of their hometown had been met with outrage in the community.
"Not just now, even before, the mentality was super bad," she said. "People never supported women cyclists. When I tried training outside my house, they were throwing rocks and saying that women were only for staying inside the house, that it wasn't the correct thing to do.” Fariba said she hoped that her performance in the Paris Olympics – or even just her presence - would help push back against the idea that women and girls had no place in the world of professional sports. "You can change a lot of that mentality together," she said. "I will try to do it for my people, to show that cycling is something nice that everyone can do, not just the men but women as well." Fariba will be riding in the women's road race this Sunday alongside her sister, who finished 26th in the rain-soaked time trial last Saturday. There is, she knows, a lot riding on her performance. "It's going to be hard," she said. "I'll try my best – everyone comes for a good result. I hope I can bring one of the three medals, and I can represent my country and the 20 million women in Afghanistan - that's my dream." As part of that representation, Fariba and the rest of the Afghan team are competing not under the white flag of the Taliban's self-proclaimed Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, but the black, red and green tricolour that flew over Kabul before the city fell to Taliban forces. "This is my flag, and I'm fighting with this flag," Fariba said. "It's our flag, it has a long history for us. It's life for us." The two sisters are now living in Italy, having never imagined they would find themselves exiled from their homeland. Despite the elation of competing in the Olympics, Fariba said, it was hard not to miss the place where she and her sister had grown up. "I think about [Afghanistan] a lot," she said. "I hope that one day I can go back to my country and be back with my family. I really miss my country. I really, really, really, miss it. And I want to come back one day. I hope that the situation changes, and that I can do my sport in my country." >>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/sport/20240803-olympics-afghan-sister-cyclists-fly-flag-fallen-country-paris-games


CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists - July 29, 2024
<<Taliban morality police detain Kandahar radio presenter Mohammad Ibrahim Mohtaj
New York, July 29, 2024-Taliban authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Mohammad Ibrahim Mohtaj, who was detained leaving his office on July 27 by agents of the Taliban’s provincial Directorate of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Mohtaj, a broadcast manager and presenter with the independent Millat Zhag radio station in the southern city of Kandahar, was transferred to an unknown location, according to a local journalist who spoke to CPJ on condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisals, the exiled Afghanistan Journalists Center watchdog group, and the London-based news broadcaster Afghanistan International. "Taliban officials must immediately release Mohammad Ibrahim Mohtaj and stop arbitrary detentions of journalists and media workers," said CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Beh Lih Yi. "Afghanistan's notorious morality police must not exacerbate a media crackdown that has been a hallmark of Taliban rule or heighten fears among Afghan journalists." Millat Zhag broadcasts news and cultural programming for Kandahar city and surrounding districts. A report by the U.N. Mission in Afghanistan said this month that the ministry, which the Taliban set up after taking power in 2021, used threats, excessive force, and arbitrary arrests to enforce its rules around media monitoring, drugs, and female dress codes. Separately, culture journalist Sayed Rahim Saeedi was detained by Taliban intelligence agents in the capital Kabul on July 14. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid did not respond to CPJ's request for comment via messaging app, but The Associated Press reported that the ministry had called the findings of the U.N. report false and contradictory.>>
Source:
https://cpj.org/2024/07/taliban-morality-police-detain-kandahar-radio-presenter-mohammad-ibrahim-mohtaj/


missing Yazidi women and children
Jinha - Womens News Agency - August 3 , 2024
<<'The missing Yazidi women and children must be rescued'
"The missing Yazidi women and children must be rescued," said the written statement released by the Southern Kurdistan Women's Front to mark the 10th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide.
News Center- The Southern Kurdistan Women's Front has released a written statement to mark the 10th anniversary of the genocide committed by ISIS against the Yazidi community in Shengal (Sinjar) on August 3,2014. Defining the genocide committed by ISIS against the Yazidi community in 2014 as "the 74th Yazidi genocide", the Southern Kurdistan Women's Front recalled that thousands of Yazidi women were killed and abducted by ISIS in 2014. "Although the YPG and YPJ have rescued some of the Yazidi women and children abducted by ISIS, thousands of Yazidi women and children are still missing," the statement said. ISIS targeted the language, culture and life of the Yazidi people, the statement added, stressing that the plans of ISIS, supported by the Turkish state, were frustrated by the Kurds. "However, ISIS still poses a threat. Shengal must be rebuilt on the system of the autonomous administration and women should organize themselves stronger because the attacks against Yazidis continue. The missing Yazidi women and children must be rescued. A women's council must be formed to make the voices of the missing Yazidi women and children all around the world." >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/the-missing-yazidi-women-and-children-must-be-rescued-35484?page=1

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