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The women who take part in the MEDİZ activity to end sexism in advertisements say they are fed up with the ...»

Ayşe Yılbaş and her mother appealed to the authorities many times for protection. Ironically, the accused husband managed to get protection ...»

Turkey’s Education and Science Workers Union elects three women to the new administration, possibly a woman president, an important step in ...»

Islamist-feminist Hidayet Tuksal bursts against AKP spokesperson Firat's statement that "AKP women would not be slaves to the feminist ideology". Feminist ...»

Dengir Mir Fırat of AKP claimed that the feminist thinking creates a medium of clash between man and woman. He addressed ...»

The Feminist Kollektif (Feminist Collective) sat in front of the Galatasaray High School in protest of the murder of Pippa Bacca. ...»

According to the UNDP “Youth in Turkey” report, girls are still being deprived of schooling because of gender discrimination. The lack ...»

For the last 18 years, the “Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation” has supported women. Bianet talked to the organisers. ...»

Boyd Tonkin called her “A writer who weds the modern and the mystic,” when he interviewed her for the Independent newspaper ...»

"The Bastard of Istanbul," the book which landed Turkish writer Elif Shafak in court under the controversial Article 301, has now ...»

Under the slogan “We look out for each other,” over 1,000 women have signed a statement condemning the categorisation of women ...»

Women journalists from Turkey, Algeria, Italy, the Lebanon, Spain, Egypt, France, Morocco and Palestine will consider the “Mediterranean Woman in her ...»

The US Department of State released its 2007 report on Turkey on 11 March. The report criticises the fact that there ...»

2008: 4 years have passed since the reform of the Family Code. Casablanca, a population of 3.5 million (officially), economic capital ...»

Despite the culture of disapproval and the fact that punishment can reach murder or reclusion, love is still worth the risk ...»

They live different realities but almost all, with two exceptions, have place the word “love” on top of their scale of ...»

Forty years have passed since the sexual revolution started on May ’68. How do young women in their 20’s live love ...»

If there is one thing that unites young Egyptian women in their twenties today it is that they are generally more ...»

In Beirut, few young men haven’t emigrated yet, and the competition is getting tough among women. From enticing dresses to plastic ...»

Neither Conchita, nor femme fatale… Only ten years have passed since the era of Franco and women’s conditions in Spain have ...»

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