Hasmik Hovhannisyan 19.11.2007 “We condemn the despicable policies enacted against the Kurdish people”
“The liberation of Ocalan is our liberation as well”
“Long live the friendship of the Armenian and Kurdish peoples!”
“Let us live and create with Leader Apo at our side”
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Posted GMT 12-10-2007
When the women of Iran risk their own lives and that of their children and husbands to commit an illegal act of assembly for a peaceful demonstration against the unjust laws of the Islamist regime, they hope that the world is listening and supports them in their struggle for freedom and emancipation.
Not only Ruanda, but 97 other countries also support a gender quota in political representation. KA-DER has called for the application of a gender quota as a means of overcoming the real inequalities which women face.
86 women NGOs gathered and made a joint press statement yesterday to call for women's participation in the preparation of the constitutional draft. They worry that the principle of equality may be taken out.
DTP deputy calls for end on ban on Kurdish in politics
TDN-Certain issues should no longer be considered taboos. The ban on the use of Kurdish in politics should be lifted, said the newly elected deputy from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) Gültan Kışanak last week.
They made it to Parliament but tough job awaits DTP’s women
Zaman-Fifteen of the newly elected deputies from eastern and southeastern Anatolia are women, and most of them are from the Democratic Society Party (DTP).
Bianet-"Thousand Hope" candidate Sebahat Tuncel, who has been detained following allegations of PKK membership, has been elected into parliament. The popular media has not covered any of Tuncel's hearings, but today everyone showed pictures of her in handcuffs
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Hasmik Hovhannisyan 19.11.2007 “We condemn the despicable policies enacted against the Kurdish people”
Posted GMT 12-10-2007
When the women of Iran risk their own lives and that of their children and husbands to commit an illegal act of assembly for a peaceful demonstration against the unjust laws of the Islamist regime, they hope that the world is listening and supports them in their struggle for freedom and emancipation.
Not only Ruanda, but 97 other countries also support a gender quota in political representation. KA-DER has called for the application of a gender quota as a means of overcoming the real inequalities which women face.
86 women NGOs gathered and made a joint press statement yesterday to call for women's participation in the preparation of the constitutional draft. They worry that the principle of equality may be taken out.
The ECHR has awarded damages to a young man who was tortured while in detention in Diyarbakir in 2002.
TDN-Certain issues should no longer be considered taboos. The ban on the use of Kurdish in politics should be lifted, said the newly elected deputy from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) Gültan Kışanak last week.
Zaman-Fifteen of the newly elected deputies from eastern and southeastern Anatolia are women, and most of them are from the Democratic Society Party (DTP).
Bianet-"Thousand Hope" candidate Sebahat Tuncel, who has been detained following allegations of PKK membership, has been elected into parliament. The popular media has not covered any of Tuncel's hearings, but today everyone showed pictures of her in handcuffs