Numerous events and demonstrations have taken place in Europe on the occasion of International Women's Day.

In Toulouse, Kurdish women came together for a film screening of speeches by Abdullah Öcalan on the question of women's liberation. In Reims, under the motto "Women will change the world", banners and photos of women's actions worldwide from the past year were displayed and leaflets were distributed.

In Frankfurt am Main, a demonstration took place from the main train station to the Hauptwache. Kurdish women's councils from Frankfurt and Mainz, "Women Defend Rojava" and many other groups took part in the action. At the Hauptwache, the women flied white and purple balloons. At the end of the event the women were temporarily detained.

In the Greek city of Lavrio near Athens, events for the 8th of March have been taking place for a few days already. Today a demonstration was held, in which children sent letters in bottles into the sea. Afterwards a folklore group performed and a film was shown.

A demonstration was also held in Zurich to mark the international day of women’s struggle.

During a demonstration promoted by the Ronahi-Berivan Women's Council in Mannheim, left-wing member Gökay Akbulut pointed out the worldwide struggle of women against violence and stressed that the women's revolution in Rojava is supported by feminist movements all over the world.

At a demonstration of the "8th March Alliance" in Giessen the performance "The rapist on my way" from Chile was performed.

The Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe (TJK-E) has said the following in its statement on March 8: "In a world where male-dominated mentality prevails, sexual abuse, prostitution, suicide, child marriage, feminicide, domestic, social and state violence have become a form of daily practice. The male-state terror is increasingly normalized. Murders committed under the name of honour and love are punished by state laws with the least punishment. A war is waged against women by justifying sexism and attacks on women as natural behaviour of masculinity and by normalising massacres of women. War, forced migration and unemployment affect women the most. Missing women, lost children, women without a future, murders of women are the greatest tragedies of our century."

In view of this world situation, the TJK-E called for organised struggle, saying: "As a movement of Kurdish women, we call on all democratic circles, all structures that organise themselves in the name of women's liberation, all revolutionary, anti-capitalist and anti-fascist associations, all ecological and feminist movements and women of all societies to organise themselves for the common struggle.”