women s groups often frame themselves as philanthropic or as community projects to avoid government interference another response is to seek refuge on the web to share information and mobilize see below the involvement of young women in uprisings and revolutions has not necessarily led to the inclusion of their demands in posttransition political landscapes in the iraqi kurdish region young women are often forced to choose between airing their gender concerns among mainstream feminist groups which do not address their specific position as kurds or forgoing such concerns so as to be included in the malecentric struggles for national liberation the relegation of feminist demands was a feature of the activism of young women in the recent uprisings