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Άστεγη από το Οχάιο περπατά χιλιόμετρα για τη δίκη του βιαστή της

A homeless woman in Ohio said that she sometimes had to walk three hours to court or the man who raped her would have been free to victimize another woman. The Columbus Dispatch reported that the homeless woman had been raped on March 12 last year while she was sleeping under an E. Broad Street bridge. She …

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After years of silence, Turkey’s women are going into battle against oppression

Elif Shafak As a high-school student in Turkey, whenever I took the bus I would make sure to keep an open safety pin in my hand – to poke molesters with. By the time I started university, I was carrying pepper spray in my bag, as did many of my female friends. We spoke about …

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Istanbul hospitals refuse abortions as government’s attitude hardens

Activists say few state hospitals agreed to perform non-emergency terminations, while president Erdoğan repeatedly compares abortion to murder Most Istanbul hospitals are violating the law by refusing to carry out abortions, women’s rights groups in Turkey have established. Activists from the Purple Roof women’s shelter in Istanbul found that only three out of 37 state …

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