ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A women’s rights organization on Monday called for the complete abolition of polygamy in the Kurdistan Region, citing it as the root cause of a horrific crime committed last ...

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...

Kurdish leaders on Saturday commemorated International Women’s Day, highlighting the sacrifices Kurdistan Region’s women have ...

Peace was a central theme in this year’s celebrations in the Kurdish city, where Women's Day was marked for the first time in ...

Since 8 March, five women’s rights activists arrested, arbitrarily detained in solitary confinement and interrogated without ...

Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists demanding equality or who defy ...

The leaders of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq on Sunday commemorated the Halabja massacre of Kurds that ...

Thousands of women have taken to the streets of Turkish cities to mark International Women’s Day, protesting inequality and violence against women ...

The inhabitants of Syrian Kurdistan are surrounded by urgent threats and challenges: attacks from Turkish troops, the ...

An Iranian-Kurdish woman, Amini, 22, had been arrested for allegedly violating the Islamic republic's strict dress rules for women. The protests shook Iranian authorities and remain a rallying cause ...

Women will overthrow the Islamic system established in Iran after the 1979 revolution even if the authorities survive a ...

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...