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• 8 March celebrations in Gothenburg and Örebro 

  International Working Women Day was celebrated with demonstrations, panels and conferences, including Kurdish women in Gothenburg and Örebro, Sweden.
• YPJ fighters celebrate 8 March at the foot of Mount Kezwan 

  YPJ fighters celebrated 8 March, International Working Women's Day at the foot of Mount Kezwan. "We will ensure the freedom of women and our land," they said.
• Amed women's rally through ANF lenses 

  Images from the 8 March event organized by TJA and HDP Women's Council in Amed yesterday.
• 8 March celebrated in many cities of Southern Kurdistan 

  International Working Women's Day was celebrated with various events in Hewlêr, Sulaymaniyah, Kirkuk, Shengal, Maxmur, Germiyan and many other cities of southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq.
• March 8 celebrated in Ankara 

  Women in Ankara marched from Kolej Square to Sakarya Square to celebrate International Working Women's Day.
• Women fill the squares in North and East Syria 

  In northern and eastern Syria, women took to the streets to celebrate International Working Women's Day.
• Women's Day in Dersim: Where is Gülistan Doku? 

  At a rally on the occasion of the International Women's Day in the Northern Kurdistan province of Dersim, the whereabouts of Gülistan Doku was asked. The 21-year-old student has been missing for over two months.
• March 8 celebrated in Batman 

  In Batman women have called for a feminist campaign to strengthen Kurdish national unity and to defend the achievements of the Kurds against the AKP's misogynist and warmongering policies.
• Istanbul police attack Feminist Night March and arrest many women 

  The governor of Istanbul banned the march of women to mark March 8.
• Women celebrate March 8 in Kobanê 

  The celebration at Free Woman's Square was held under the motto “Our struggle is freedom, our resistance is victory”.
• YJŞ fighters: Self-organization is the key against femicide 

  On the occasion of the international women's day of struggle, ANF Shengal correspondent Dilpak Dağ spoke with fighters of the Yazidi Women's Units, YJŞ. They emphasize that women's self-organization is the key against femicide.
• Female guerrillas in Kurdistan meet March 8 on the frontline 

  YJA STAR guerrillas stated that March 8 needs to be understood with the wide context of women’s freedom struggle and conduce toward new moves.
• Jinwar: Our struggle is freedom, our resistance is success 

  “We have the power to create an alternative, which makes it possible to develop our own culture, to live freely according to our own values, together, with our own will, our own hands, our creativity.”
• Women rally in Amed: "Resistance instead of obedience” 

  The event began with a minute’s silence in memory of all those who lost their lives in the struggle.
• Tuncel: Women's solidarity crosses borders and walls 

  From Kandira prison Sebahat Tuncel said: "Women's solidarity not only crosses borders, it also crosses walls. We also participate in the women's freedom struggle and solidarity in prison in the ways our conditions allow it."
• Qamishlo: 8 March is the day of women walking towards victory 

  Speaking about the International Working Women's Day, 8 March, YJA Star commander Sarya Qamishlo said: "8 March, means resistance, and has become the day of the women walking towards victory."
• At least 50 women prisoners seriously ill in Turkish jails 

  Human rights defenders drew attention to the situation of women prisoners in Istanbul and Ankara. Activists reminded that there are at least 50 seriously ill prisoners.
• YPJ send 8 March message to all women 

  Celebrating 8 March, the YPJ said: "Our struggle comes from the achievements of the March 8 spirit."
• 8 March messages: Humanity will be freed if women are free 

  Numerous institutions and platforms issued written statements to mark 8 March, International Working Women's Day. The statements underlined that women's freedom would liberate all humanity.
• 8 March demonstrations in European cities 

  Activities for the International Women's Day 8 March have taken place in many cities in Europe. The Kurdish women's association TJK-E called for a common struggle against male fascism and patriarchal institutions.
• Postcard campaign for female political prisoners in Turkey 

  On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Kurdish Women Students’ Association JXK is running a postcard campaign for women in Turkish prisons.
• Women in Istanbul: We will never give up freedom! 

  Women demonstrated in Istanbul to mark March 8 and gave the message: "We will never give up our freedom".
• Female guerrillas in Eastern Kurdistan celebrate March 8 

  Guerrillas in Rojhilat celebrate March 8 in the mountains of Kurdistan.
• YPJ Spokesperson’s message on March 8 

  YPJ’s Abdullah saluted all women of the world who fight and resist for a free life.
• YPJ Commander: For us, every day is March 8 

  On March 8 - emancipatory women's struggles worldwide should unite and strengthen themselves. Just the right place to make a collective announcement to the patriarchal reality, says YPJ commander Tolhildan Raman.