Thread by @monaeltahawy

A member of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) was killed by her brother in the Syrian town of Darbasiyyah, after she refused her male relatives’ demands that she not join the women fighters. kurdistan24.net/en/news/d0a689…

h/t @rizikaoikonomik

“Violence against women is one of the most common violations of human rights, but most of these violations are not reported because of the absence of penalty,” said Kongra-Star, a confederation of women’s organizations

“We,as women’s movement,call on all the women, civil rights institutions and the civic society institutions to take a rapid initiative to stop these crimes and not to be slow in holding the criminal accountable and applying the heaviest penalty so we can see that justice is done”

Thomas McClure, a Syria-based researcher at the Rojava Information Center, told Kurdistan 24 that the YPJ, established in 2013, is known the world over for their efforts to establish a new form of autonomous, female-led democracy in northeastern Syria.

The local Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) promotes and enshrines women’s rights into their laws, bu women living in areas under their control “continue to face major violence and oppression in the family home.”

Kongra-Star and other women’s rights recently launched a campaign called “She did not commit suicide, you killed her” after an increase in murders of women there and in other deaths that were officially ruled suicide, but where so-called honor killing is strongly suspected.

The YPJ played a central role in routing Daesh/ISIS from their Syrian stronghold. Read this about the anarchist feminist revolution in northern Syria - @gaylelemmon defenseone.com/ideas/2018/02/…

I wrote about YPJ, #Kurdish women’s resistance and what ISIS/Daesh feared the most (feminism and women’s equality) for @MsMagazine in 2016

And here is a thread with other articles about the YPJ and the anarchist feminist revolution