ISTANBUL | 01 -09 – 2013 | Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Küçükçekmece Women’s Assembly member Neslihan Harman died on Sunday after she was shot by her ex-husband on her way to the major BDP meeting to take place in Istanbul’s Kadıköy district today on the World Peace Day. According to the statements of eye witnesses, Harman was assaulted by ...

SYRIA | 23-08-2013 | Children make up more than half of all refugees from the Syrian conflict. More than 768,000 Syrian child refugees are under the age of 11 according to new figures released by UNICEF. Most have arrived in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. More than 3,500 of these children have crossed the borders either unaccompanied or separated ...

 TURKEY | 23-08-2013 |  After the allegation that in the Guta city near Damascus in Syria over thousand people were massecred,  the People’s Democratic Congress (HDK) said “there will be no winner to this bloody civil war; the loser will however be the innocent people of Syria” during the press conference that they held. The People’s Democratic Congress Executive Commmittee, has ...

ISTANBUL | 22-08-2013 | Deri-Iş Union (Leather Workers) has held a demonstration march in front of Punto Deri in Zeytinburnu in Istanbul on 21st August. The reason for the march was that 11th August workers from Punto Deri were fired for being union members. During the protest march the slogans were “Unions are our right and cannot be prevented”, “Unity, ...

LONDON | 18 – 08 – 2013 |  The womens comission of the London Gezi Solidarity tent, have organised a protest on Trafalgar Square on Saturday 17th August. The protest aimed to voice the concerns of the Rojava massacre and strengthen the demands for freedom of the Gezi prisoners. The women were wearing white t-shirts with several slogans on them, ...

AUSTRALIA | 18 – 08 – 2013 | 2012’s total spend on Aboriginal communities reached $25 billion yet Australia’s Aboriginal youth suicide rates remain high – cruelly disproportionate to the rest of the Australian population. This horror is played out the world over for Indigenous peoples but Australia’s Aboriginal peoples are at the top of this tragic list. In 2011 the ...

Oakland – USA | 18 – 08 – 2013  | All eyes are on California, as prisoners across the state’s vast prison system hit their 38th day of hunger strike in protest of the torturous conditions of solitary confinement.  Prisoners’ loved ones and supporters joined 100 people on the steps of the state capitol Wednesday afternoon to demand swift and resolute ...

SPAIN | 18 -08 – 2013 | Scores of people have been arrested in Spain and France in a crackdown on a gang smuggling Chinese nationals into Europe and the United States. Spanish police said on Saturday that 51 people had been arrested in Spain, with another 24 arrests were reported in France, following a two-year joint investigation. The bosses of ...

DİYARBAKIR | 18 – 08 – 2013 | The Human Rights Association (IHD) Diyarbakır Branch has released its report on human rights violations in the the East and South East regions jails for the first 6 months of 2013. The report underlined the ill-treatment and torture practices are still very high and warned that death toll could climb due to ...

ATİK |18-08-2013 | The attacks against the masses who gathered on the squares in Egypt in defiance of the military coup have turned into a massacre. Hunderds of people who took to the squares against the fascist military coup are killed, thousands are injured during the attack. And while these brutal attacks continue with all its barbarism, state of emergency ...