On 2 March this year, Yanar Mohammed, a prominent feminist figure in Iraq, was shot dead outside her home by two gunmen – the latest in a string of activists killed, likely by units of the Popular ...

Across global demonstrations and in thousands of videos posted online, Kurdish women and their allies have begun braiding their hair in honor of a female Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter ...

Amnesty International has accused authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I) of neglecting their duty to hold perpetrators of domestic violence accountable, according to a new report released ...

The Women’s Assembly of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party issued a written statement condemning the approval of a death sentence for Kurdish activist and labor rights ...

Celebration of the International Women’s Day in Rojava in 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Rojava Information Center) In 2021, 500 years after the Spanish conquest of the Indigenous communities in what is ...

Seven women swathed in chadors, their eyes barely visible through netted apertures, stride purposefully toward seven marble headstones in a forest clearing. A lone woman in traditional Kurdish garb ...

Dozens of women gather in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, to braid each other's hair in a show of support, after a Syrian soldier bragged in a video about cutting off a Kurdish ...

MALIKIYA, Syria (Reuters) - Like her five sisters before her, Ahin left school to help her mother at home. Now she's training to fight. At a remote Kurdish militia base on the grassy rolling hills ...