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• Memorial for YPJ martyr Anna Campbell in London 

  A memorial will be held today in London, at the Kurdish Community Centre at 3 pm. 
• Cooperatives strengthen women in Rojava 

  The Kurdish umbrella organisation Kongreya Star supports various cooperatives in Rojava in which women work autonomously and thus stand up for themselves and the community at the same time. There are now 16 new cooperatives in Cizîrê despite the war.
• Besê Erzincan: Women will determine the direction 

  Besê Erzincan of the KJK says that it is not the crisis of the global hegemonic system that will determine future developments, but rather the organised, planned and goal-oriented intervention of women.
• A guerrilla fighter on her mother's trail 

  The parents of guerrilla fighter Roza Nûjîn, who comes from Eastern Kurdistan, used to be peshmerga in the Kurdish mountains in the border area between Iran and Iraq. Roza now wants to realize their unfinished dreams.
• Kurdish Women’s Movement joins Women's Day activities in Finland 

  In Finland around 20 women are murdered by their partners or husbands every year, while in total 71 % of women and girls living in Finland have been subjected to sexual harassment.
• Women fill the streets of Cologne  

  "With the struggle of Kurdish women, the slogan "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi" is no longer a slogan and has turned into a philosophy of life."
• 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.