On the 73rd anniversary of the Kurdistan Women's Union, Nechirvan Barzani reaffirmed full support for strengthening women's ...

Verisheh Moradi, a member of the Community of Free Women of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR) who previously fought against the ...

President Masoud Barzani praised the Kurdistan Women's Union as a vital achievement of the national struggle, stating it has ...

Iran’s Supreme Court has annulled the death sentence of Kurdish women’s rights activist Wrisha (Varisheh) Moradi due to legal ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The head of a leading non-profit that is based in the Kurdistan Region has warned of increasing ...

While dodging severe thunderstorms and tornadoes here in Oklahoma, Syrian Kurdish women’s rights activist Senam Mohamad spoke of the ISIS storms brewing in the Middle East at the University of Central ...

A Kurdish American highlighted the recent struggle for human rights for women in Iran during a speech to the Moorhead Human Rights Commission. Siham Amedy from Kurdish Iraq recently gave a speech to ...

The Kurdish women fighters (Women’s Protection Unit, YPJ) of Rojava (the self-proclaimed Kurdish autonomy region in northern Syria) and the women’s guerrilla units (YJA-Star) of the Kurdistan Workers ...

The Women’s Assembly of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party issued a written statement condemning the approval of a death sentence for Kurdish activist and labor rights ...

MALIKIYA, Syria (Reuters) - Like her five sisters before her, Ahin left school to help her mother at home. Now she's training to fight. At a remote Kurdish militia base on the grassy rolling hills ...

SAMAQA, Iraq, Nov 3 (Reuters) - When Islamic State insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position in northern Iraq, the women first hit back by singing ...