The International Women's Day of Struggle on March 8 was widely celebrated around the world. Around the globe, women and other oppressed groups took the day as an opportunity to focus on their concerns. The Coordination of the Kurdistan Women's Community (KJK), the umbrella organization of the Kurdish women's movement, released a statement saluting “all the struggling women who filled the squares of the world and Kurdistan with their voices, words, dances and trills, who resist despite all the barbaric practices of the male system and who hold the cruel patriarchal system accountable". The movement also congratulated “all women who contributed to the successful celebration of International Women's Day".

The KJK statement on Monday said:

This year on March 8, women, who are subjected to deep crises, massacres and persecution 24 hours a day in the grip of sexism, once again bravely and decisively said 'I exist' and succeeded in weaving the reality of a relentless radical struggle. Women rebelled against the exploitation, genocide, harassment and rape policies imposed in every moment and space of life. In all actions and events, women voiced their objections loudly against the pro-power sexist mentality and structures that are guilty and responsible for these bloody, cruel and misogynist practices. In this sense, March 8, 2024 became the concrete expression of women's awakening, consciousness, will and organization. Today, the women's struggle has become the most radical struggle for democracy and human rights.

The gains of the women's struggle have reached a higher level with the Rojava women's revolution. We welcomed this year's March 8 with the determination to attribute the women's revolution to the women of the Middle East and the world. The wars produced by male-state fascism hit us women, children, peoples and nature the most. Therefore, against all the crises, wars, destructions, migrations, racist, nationalist and sexist practices created by the dominant tyrannical state fascism, as women, we must be in constant organization and struggle for democracy, freedom and an ecological life, not just on one day of the year but at every moment.

The year 2024, in which economic, political, cultural and military wars produce devastating consequences for women, peoples and nature, is also very important for the women's struggle. March 8 has been the culminating expression of these developments.  At this critical moment in history, the only way to stop the modern age of barbarism is to organize the women's revolution in the philosophy of ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ (Woman, Life, Freedom). We must move forward by raising our consciousness and strength of struggle against the masculine system that slaughters life in the person of women, which produces and multiplies wars, exploitation, racism and sexism. Today, the women's struggle has reached a threshold from which it is difficult to turn back. Therefore, by organizing more and weaving a common line of struggle, we can overthrow this tyrannical system that is definitely outdated.

It is time to enlarge the struggle, to make the collectivity universal. It is time to build the women's revolution based on the philosophy of ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’. As KJK, we once again salute the women who make March 8 meaningful with the beauty and enthusiasm of the women's revolution. 

We renew our promise to make every day March 8 for the victory of the struggle for rights, justice, equality, freedom and democracy."