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Kurdistan Women’s League marks 70th anniversary vowing to tackle scourge of femicide
A soldier from the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ)
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COMMUNISTS marked the 70th anniversary of the Kurdistan Women’s League yesterday, blaming Iraqi Kurdistan’s government for a sharp rise in femicide in the region.
The establishment of the women’s section of the Kurdistan Communist Party-Iraq was hailed as a major step in the struggle to transform a predominantly patriarchal society.
In Slemani, the party paid tribute to “all the brave women who have struggled in the past” against injustice and inequality.
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