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HDP Women’s Assembly meets women discharged by statutory decrees

HUMAN RIGHTS WEEK

HDP Women’s Assembly meets women discharged by statutory decrees

On the occasion of Human Rights Week, the Women’s Assembly of the Peoples’ Democratic Party have met the women discharged from public service by statutory decrees following the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016.

14 December 2021

HDP’s Acar-Başaran: We are Kurds, we are women, we are here

HDP’s Acar-Başaran: We are Kurds, we are women, we are here

HDP Women’s Assembly Spokesperson Ayşe Acar Başaran has criticized the 30-year prison sentence given to former Nusaybin Mayor and TJA Spokesperson Ayşe Gökkan: “The hostile attitude to Kurdish women’s struggle will lose.”

22 October 2021

HDP Women’s Assembly visits Antep: ‘Women’s poverty is not our fate’

HDP Women’s Assembly visits Antep: ‘Women’s poverty is not our fate’

Listening to the problems of women in Antep province, HDP’s Ayşe Acar-Başaran has said that they will bring these problems to the Parliamentary agenda. Showing the calluses on their hands to her, women have said that they do not have social security.

16 September 2021

Hardly 7 dollars a day for working in 40-degree heat for 12 hours

‘NO TO WOMEN’S POVERTY’

Hardly 7 dollars a day for working in 40-degree heat for 12 hours

As part of its campaign “No to Women’s Poverty”, the Women’s Assembly of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) met the women working in lentil fields in Turkey’s southeastern province of Urfa.

HDP Women’s Assembly campaigns against women’s poverty

HDP Women’s Assembly campaigns against women’s poverty

Launching a campaign against women’s poverty amid mounting economic hardships and unemployment in Turkey, the HDP has underlined that the deepening economic crisis has affected women the most.

HDP probes allegations of male violence about its MP Mensur Işık

HDP probes allegations of male violence about its MP Mensur Işık

The Women’s Assembly of the HDP has released a written statement about the allegation that HDP Muş MP Mensur Işık inflicted violence on his wife Ebru Işık: “We will stand up against it no matter from whom or where violence comes.”

‘Women’s struggle is everywhere’

NEW CAMPAIGN BY HDP WOMEN’S ASSEMBLY

‘Women’s struggle is everywhere’

Rojda Bedia Akkaya from the HDP Women’s Assembly has spoken to bianet about their new campaign. “In the face of abuse, execution, trustees… We are here, women’s struggle is everywhere,” reads the slogan of the campaign.

24 June 2020 Evrim Kepenek

HDK Women’s Assembly: 240 Women Politicians Behind Bars

AHEAD OF NOVEMBER 25

HDK Women’s Assembly: 240 Women Politicians Behind Bars

Releasing a statement ahead of November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) Women’s Assembly has raised concerns that systematic male violence is on the increase.

21 November 2019