Webinar: Unite to Stop Feminicide – Ensure Justice for All! on 13 Oct. at 1 pm – 3 pm UTC / GMT
Dear friends,
we are inviting you to join our upcoming online discussion on 13th October. With this event, we want to bring feminicide into discussion, as a way to memorialize Nagihan Akarsel – who was assassinated on the 4th of October, 2022, by Turkish state forces – and other women pioneers who have been targeted by state forces around the world. The targeted assassination of political women has a long history. There is a systematic destruction of women‘s identity, free thought, will, creativity and self-determination.
In the context of Kurdistan, especially since the beginning of the AKP-Erdogan government, extra-judicial killings targeting activists of the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement, inside and outside the borders of Turkey, have multiplied. In East Kurdistan and Iran dozens of women were assassinated or tortured to death by Iranian state forces during the uprisings that followed the murder of Jina Emini. As perpetrators act with the certainty that their crimes will go unpunished, targeted political killings of Kurdish women have increased dramatically since 2022. These killings, which violate international law, are frequently carried out by drone strikes on Kurdish territory in Iraq and in North and East Syria. Recently, the Turkish state killed two Kurdish journalists, Gulistan Tara and Hero Bahaddin, through a drone strike. Yet, none of the perpetrators have been prosecuted.
With this webinar we want to locate our discussions within the worldwide struggles against feminicide, violence against women and the patriarchal system of rule. Our aim is to raise awareness of the interplay of the oppressive mechanisms of nationalism, racism, colonialism and violence against women promoted by the system of the nation state. Ending impunity for political killings, bringing perpetrators and their employers to justice, means to prevent future crimes against humanity.
While commemorating struggling women in different parts of the world we want to discuss the following questions:
• What means feminicide?
• What are the reasons and methods of political killings and targeting of women community leaders in different regions of the world?
• How can we develop a common struggle to defend women’s lives and freedom?
• How can women’s justice be achieved?
Unite to Stop Feminicide – Ensure Justice for All! – Webinar
on 13 October 2024
at 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm UTC / GMT
Organisers: Jineolojî Academy, Women Weaving Future, International Initiative Justice for Nagihan Akarsel
Zoom meeting invitation: Unite to Stop Feminicide
Time: 13.10. 2024 – 01:00 PM UTC / GMT
Link:https://us02web.zoom.us/
Meeting ID: 844 3181 4197
Password: 987726