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• International Women’s Day: A Clarion Call for Justice 

  “We are the gears that make the world move and we must demand our rightful place amongst humanity,” says the KNK Commission on Women and stresses that, "The future can only be saved if it is female."
• YJA Star guerrilla invites women to the mountains of Kurdistan 

  A fighter of the women's guerrilla force YJA Star, Nûjîn Güneş, calls on Kurdish women to join the guerrilla's fight in the mountains.
• ‘Women should struggle every day’ 

  Women from Amed said that the struggle and public activities should not be restricted to March 8 and added that the struggle should continue without interruption.
• KJK: Let’s build up World Democratic Women’s Confederalism! 

  KJK calls on all progressive, revolutionary and freedom-seeking women’s movements and groups to “collectively build World Democratic Women’s Confederalism with us and our organized sisters from all around the world.”
• Women rally in Istanbul: We have the power to change! 

  "We strengthen the fight against poverty, violence and exploitation! We have the power to change" was the motto of a women's meeting in Istanbul, hosted by the Platform 8 March.
• Tree nursery named after Hevrîn Xelef opened in Qamishlo 

  A tree nursery named after Hevrîn Xelef has been opened in Qamishlo. The saplings, grown in memory of the Kurdish politician murdered by mercenaries loyal to Turkey, will be planted for the reforestation of Rojava.
• Arab and Yazidi woman celebrate March 8 in Shengal 

  Arab and Yazidi women celebrate the International Women’s Day in Shengal.
• Jiyan's path 

  The road should be taken. When the time comes, one should not stop. Otherwise, mediocrity would be equivalent to death. If there is a path, one should take it, with courage and love...
• HPJ celebrates March 8, calls for enhanced struggle 

  HPJ called on women in East Kurdistan and Iran to manifest their stance in all fields, to protect themselves from femicide and to join the campaign launched by KJAR against femicide and ecocide.
• Women guerrillas celebrate March 8 in the mountains of Kurdistan 

  "World War III is the result of patriarchal domination mindset," stated guerrilla commander Hêzil Özgür at a celebration of Women's Struggle Day, 8 March, in the mountains of Kurdistan.
• Men kill at least 22 women in February 

  According to the news compiled by bianet from local and national newspapers, news websites and agencies, men killed at least 22 women and raped three women in Turkey in February 2022.
• KON-MED calls on everyone to attend rallies organised by European Kurdish Women's Movement 

  Celebrating March 8, International Working Women's Day, KON-MED called on everyone to take to the streets and attend the marches and rallies organised by the European Kurdish Women's Movement.
• Women's movement RJAK continues 8 March activities in Sulaymaniyah 

  The women's movement RJAK organized an open-air celebration in Sulaymaniyah on the occasion of International Women's Day 8 March. Today women will visit the grave of young victim Şinyar Huner, burned while sleeping by her husband.
• TJK-E announces its action calendar for 8 March 

  The TJK-E announced its action calendar for 8 March.
• Women in Wuppertal send postcards to women behind bars in Turkey 

  The Wuppertal Women's Council Viyan has initiated a postcard campaign to mark the approaching Women's Struggle Day on 8 March. The cards were sent to "wonderful advocates of women's rights" who are imprisoned in Turkey.
• KJAR: We will take to the streets on March 8 

  KJAR pointed out that their main agenda and purpose in 2022 would be "guarantee the physical freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and to extend the struggle in which women are at the centre in all aspects.
• Xelat Şemsê: "We are closer to freedom than ever" 

  Xelat Şemsê, a member of the YJA Star Command Council, stressed that the AKP/MHP government faced unprecedented difficulties in the fight against the guerrillas in 2021 and failed. She noted that 2022 will be a very difficult year of struggle.
• 'History is being rewritten with the participation of women' 

  According to Rîhan Loqo of Kongra Star, one of the key organizations of North-East Syrian women planning for a new 8 March, life has been rebuilt from the perspective of women, and history has been written with the participation of women.
• Kurdish women in France mark March 8 

  The Kurdish Women’s Movement in France organized events to mark March 8, International Working Women's Day.
• Life of female PKK guerrilla Bese Anuş becomes a novel 

  The biographical novel was published in Turkish as "Besê" and in Kurdish as "Basê" and chronicles the life of Besê Anuş, one of the PKK's earliest guerillas and martyrs.
• Batufa Çekdar: We will further strengthen our resistance 

  Freedom guerrillas have the power to fight down all the hostile forces, YJA Star Command Council Member Batufa Çekdar said, insisting that “We will further strengthen our resistance and achieve victory.”
• Women in Northern and Eastern Syria welcome 8 March with a cultural festival in Qamishlo 

  Women in Northern and Eastern Syria welcomed 8 March with a festival organized with the slogan “Women are the spring flower of culture”. The festival reflected the colours of women in culture and art.
• Kurdish Women's Initiative kicks off March 8 events in the UK 

  The British Kurdish Women's Initiative has launched its March 8 activities. The initiative will raise awareness on women's resistance throughout the week.
• Lawyer Berfin Polat: Diyanet trying to prevent divorce, not violence against women 

  Lawyer Berfin Polat from the board of the women's association Rosa spoke about the patriarchal politics of the Turkish state and said that the religious authority Diyanet is conducting a misogynist campaign in the name of preventing violence.
• Kongra Star releases statement on anniversary of the killing of indigenous leader Berta Cáceres 

  Berta Cáceres was a woman, a mother, an activist, an indigenous leader, a land defender, a revolutionary. She was killed in Honduras on 2 March 2016.