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• 20-year-old woman self-immolates in Hewler 

  A 20-year-old woman self-immolated in Hewler city of South Kurdistan.
• Mothers on hunger strike for their children in prison 

  Mothers have started a hunger strike to lend their voice to the irreversible indefinite hunger strike prisoners have been on for 56 days with the demand to end the oppression policies that cross over to torture and end the isolation in İmralı.
• Nine female prisoners including politicians join the hunger strike in Sincan 

  Nine more prisoners including Dargeçit Co-mayor and HDP Muş Provincial Co-chair have joined the indefinite-irreversible hunger strike in Sincan Prison.
• MSD Co-chair Ehmed: YPJ is the guarantee of women and future 

  Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) Co-chair İlham Ehmed stated that the Women and Defense Workshop is of historic importance for the future of the Middle East.
• YPJ's Abdullah: We will avenge Nûjiyan, Nazê through women's struggle 

  YPJ Spokeswoman Nesrin Abdullah stated that they will avenge Shengal victims Nûjiyan and Nazê by leading the women's revolution to victory.
• More Êzidî women join YJŞ ranks after completing training 

  New recruits have joined the Shengal Women's Resistance Units (YJŞ) after completing their training at the Martyr Berivan Academy.
• HDP Women's Assembly Spokesperson detained in Doğubayazıt 

  HDP Women's Assembly Spokesperson Dirayet Dilan Taşdemir has been taken into custody by police in Doğubayazıt.
• YJA Star: We will prevail in 2017 with the spirit of Newroz 

  YJA Star said strengthening the defense system and ensuring victory will be the most meaningful response they will at Newroz, and emphasized that they will prevail in 2017 with the spirit of Newroz.
• Police who murdered Dilek Doğan: I did the duty my state assigned to me 

  Police officer who murdered Dilek Doğan during a raid on her house defended himself, saying: “I did the duty my state assigned to me.”
• TAJÊ: As Êzidî women our vengeance will be great 

  Free Êzidî Women's Movement said they will not forget March 3 and 14, vowing that "As Êzidî women we will get organized, grow stronger and our vengeance will be great".
• TJK-E calls for action against the KDP attack on civilians in Shengal 

  TJK-E condemned KDP forces' attack on Êzidîs in Shengal's Khanasor town and called upon Kurdish women to take action everywhere.
• Decisions and demands from the International Êzidî Women's Conference 

  Participants of the International Êzidî Women's Conference held in Bielefeld, Germany took a series of decisions and highlighted demands such as an international recognition of the massacre carried out in Shengal as genocide.
• YJA-Star guerrillas in Kirkuk celebrate March 8 

  YJA-Star guerrillas in Kirkuk celebrated March 8 International Working Women's Day and reiterated their promise to not allow anyone to trample on the labour of women again.
• A revolutionary first in Rojava: YPJ 

  “We always drew strength from the struggle women have given in history. The gains made in this recent process are a heritage from the history of resistance. We can say that the YPJ is the freedom army of all world's women.”
• KCK: Women’s struggle will liberate all the peoples in the Middle East 

  KCK on March 8: “Women have become a force of freedom that will save humanity along with themselves. No movement adorned with the women’s freedom line and democratic character can be defeated.”
• MSD's Ehmed calls on women to fight together for an equal and free life 

  MSD Co-chair Ilham Ehmed: We are inviting all Syrian and Middle Eastern women to fight together for an equal and free life.
• Guerrilla women: Woman is the name of life 

  YJA STAR guerrillas: “From Clara’s to Sara’s and Sêvê’s, outcries of resistance never ended, and never will.”
• Friends of Rojava in North America salute the women of the revolution 

  The Friends of Rojava in North America released a statement saluting the women of the Rojava Revolution on the occasion of International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2017.
• YJA-Star guerrillas and Makhmur residents celebrate March 8 

  International Women's Day, March 8 has been welcomed in Makhmur Martyr Rüstem Refugee Camp with broad participation and great joy.
• Women celebrate March 8 in Qandil 

  Hundreds of women gathered for an event to mark March 8 International Women's Day in Qandil area of Medya Defense Zones today.
• YJŞ: We are the Êzidî women's promise of vengeance 

  In a statement on 8 March International Women's Day, YJŞ General Command said: "We are the promise of vengeance of Êzidî women and all world women.”
• YPJ statement on 8 March: Every free woman is a free country 

  YPJ celebrated March 8th for women from all over the world, particularly the Middle East women and affirmed that the fight for women’s freedom will be raised.
• YRD: KDP-AKP deliberately targeted journalist Nûjiyan Erhan in Shengal 

  Democratic Press Union (YRD) stated that the KDP-AKP gangs in Shengal deliberately targeted journalist Nûjiyan Erhan who is still in life-threatening condition.
• ‘Women and the Leader’ conference begins in Sulaymaniyah 

  'Women and the Leader' conference organized by Kurdistan Free Women's Movement began in Sulaymaniyah.
• Kurdish women prepare for March 8 

  Kurdish women living in Europe are organizing many events to celebrate March 8 International Worker Women's Day.