The Action Alliance of the Women's Movement in Northern and Eastern Syria has announced the program for this year's Women's Day on 8 March. Women's organizations and institutions from various population groups from the northeast Syrian autonomous region are represented in the alliance, including Kongra Star, the Arab women's organization Zenobiya and the Syriac Women's Union. The disclosure of the joint program was done in Hesekê in Kurdish, Arabic and Aramaic.

The statement said: “On International Women’s Day 2024, we salute all women who are struggling in different areas of life, resisting in prisons and organizing for self-defense. The fight of women for freedom has a long history and continues uninterrupted to the present. Today, women around the world are more organized than ever to defend the gains of the women’s revolution and fend off misogynistic attacks.”

The alliance condemned the targeting of leading political women by the Turkish state, the brutal repression of women in the Turkish occupation zone in Syria and the recent waves of attacks on the infrastructure, civilian settlement areas and service centers in the autonomous region. The women in the region are “organized and determined to resist the attacks at all levels and to defend themselves against patriarchal ways of thinking,” the statement said.

The activities for this year’s 8 March will take place under the slogan “We will make the politics of genocide, occupation and isolation fail with the will of free women”.

The program includes meetings, seminars, a two-day cultural festival, an international online event with other women's movements, photo exhibitions, a joint visit to the Jinwar women's village, a symposium of the PYD Women's Council for all of Syria, commemorations at cemeteries of the fallen and many demonstrations. There will also be a three-day educational program for men, and brochures on the significance of 8 March will be widely distributed.