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• YJA Star Statement on March 8 

  YJA Star Headquarters Command issued a written statement addressed to all the women of the world to mark 8 March.
• Women rallied in Amed to mark March 8 despite police repression 

  The 8 March International Working Women's Day rally in Amed was organized with the slogan ‘Women in resistance for freedom, women on strike’.
• YJA Star guerrillas celebrate March 8 

  YJA Star guerrillas celebrated March 8 and saluted Leyla Guven. Zozan Cewlik spoke in the celebration and said, “We will play an important role in the war of the age. We will lead with Zozan’s line, and end the isolation and hegemonic mindset."
• Women in Rojava and Northern Syria celebrate 8 March 

  Women in Rojava and Northern Syria took to the street to celebrate 8 March, International Women’s Day and the resistance led by women.
• Yuksekdag’s March 8 message 

  Figen Yuksekdag celebrated March 8 and said, “We will live in a women’s spring and a spring for greater humanity to our heart’s desire.”
• Jinên Ciwan ên Azad 8 March message: Resistance! 

  " Let us raise the fire of resistance together and let young women joined the 8th March activities with dynamism and color.”
• TJA: This resistance is for life! 

  TJA called on women to join the 8 March rallies and added that women are struggling and resisting to live and to keep life.
• YPJ International: This will be the century of women’s liberation 

  “The male mentality brought this dark period into the universe, feminist mentality will defeat it and recreate life! The 21st century will be the century of women’s liberation.”
• Violence Against Women Network established in Amed 

  The Network against Violence Against Women was established in cooperation with all civil society organizations in Amed.
• Activities to mark 8 March underway in Kurdistan 

  Women in Kurdistan are carrying out actions and activities to mark 8 March, International Women's Day.
• Report: 52 women sexually assaulted and harassed in custody 

  The Legal Aid Bureau for Sexual Harassment and Rape in Custody has disclosed that in 2018 three women were sexually assaulted and 49 women were sexually harassed.
• Swiss feminists hold protest for Ocalan 

  The Feminist Women’s Collective in Zurich, Switzerland held a protest in the University of Zurich to draw attention to the isolation imposed upon Ocalan.
• Women celebrated 8 March for Leyla Güven in Marseille  

  TJK-F and Arin Mirkan Women's Council promoted a march and meeting in Marseille to celebrate 8 March.
• Strasbourg hunger strikers sent message to women 

  "We, as activists in Strasbourg, would like to say: resistance makes a person beautiful and beautifies the woman. Leyla Güven leads this resistance like women in Rojava, especially the YPJ, lead the resistance, and women in prison."
• Women in Shengal visit mass graves for March 8 

  The TAJE is visiting mass graves in the Herdan village in Shengal as part of the March 8 activities.
• SYKP: Women should fill the streets and reclaim their rights 

  "We do not bow to pressure, and we will continue to challenge patriarchy and capitalism.”
• Komalên Jinên Ciwan: Women are leading the resistance 

  "When fascism seems to be strong, women can raise the flag of leadership and carry out an action like the hunger strike undertaken by Leyla Güven.”
• 8 March celebrations in Northern and Eastern Syria 

  Women from across Northern and Eastern Syria held events and actions in many places for the upcoming 8 March, World Women’s Day.
• Women in Dirbesiyê celebrated 8 March 

  “On 8 March this year we will celebrate both World Women’s Day and victory against DAESH mercenaries. I wish the best to the YPJ women who are protecting us.”
• Kongreya Star visits women’s defense forces to celebrate March 8 

  Kongreya Star visited the YPJ and Domestic Security Forces (Asayish) headquarters in Derik and Serekaniye to celebrate March 8 World Women’s Day with female fighters.
• Yazidi women take over the hunger strike in front of the CPT 

  The PYD members who carried out the first 5-day hunger strike passed it on to members of the Yazidi Women's Council part of the Yazidi Free Women's Movement (TAJE).
• Turkish ISIS jihadist: Everything was so expensive in Turkey 

  Fatma Yildiz joined the ISIS because she wanted to live according to the Koran and life in Turkey was too expensive. She has been married four times in Syria and her four children are dead.
• Leyla Güven commended at 8 March event in Ticino 

  The event also called for participation in the 8 March initiatives organised by Swiss women's organizations.
• 85-year-old Sîsê Bingöl finally released from prison 

  85-year-old Sîsê Bingöl was finally released from prison.
• Plaza de Mayo Mother visited HDP MP on hunger strike in Amed 

  "The public opinion needs to react. Whatever will be done, needs to be done urgently. I am calling on the government and the UN to act with responsibility to prevent any tragedy."