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• Yazidi women from Afrin: Sleeper cells will end if ISIS is tried 

  Yazidi women from Afrin said the current process necessitates the trial of ISIS gangs in Northern and Eastern Syria, and added that the sleeper cells will end when ISIS gangs are put on trial.
• Women sentenced to house arrests and electronic handcuffs in Amed 

  One of 11 women detained in Amed on 20 March and ordered to wear electronic handcuffs, HDP Sur Co-Chair Sevim Coşkun said this is yet another way in which the state tries to prevent women struggle. 
• Health status of jailed journalist on hunger strike critical 

  The situation of the political prisoners Kibriye Evren, Hilal Ölmez and Evin Kaya on hunger strike is deteriorating rapidly. Journalist Evren is now suffering from vomiting blood.
• Peace Mothers: Everybody with a conscience should take action 

  Members of the Peace Mothers Council protested the silence in the face of the ongoing indefinite nonalternating hunger strikes demanding an end to the isolation and called on “everybody with a conscience” to take action.
• YPJ International: We came to give our duty to build up free life 

  “Colourful diversity, not black uniformity, is, what brought us here. And in the end, we found, what we were looking for.”
• Men killed at least 22 women and two kids in March 

  Men killed at least 22 women and two children in March. Two men, who were with the murdered women, were also killed. 
• PYD Co-chair Hiso: We will liberate Afrin! 

  " Afrin is ours and we will take it back from the invaders at any cost.”
• 7000 banners to say no to isolation 

  The 7000 banners action promoted by women in Switzerland to support the hunger strike against isolation has begun. 
• Demo in Stockholm condemned violence against women in Iran 

  A protest was held in Stockholm against violence against women in Iran. Protesters also commended the hunger strikers all over the world. 
• Sinn Féin support apps helping victims of domestic violence 

  Sinn Féin MLA Michaela Boyle has said a new app that will allow those in abusive relationships to track and record incidents in a private and secure environment will help victims find a voice.
• HDP deputies visited Leyla Güven 

  HDP deputies Semra Güzel and Tülay Hatimoğulları visited DTK co-chair Leyla Güven who has been on hunger strike or 146 days. 
• TJK-E calls on people to join actions in Strasbourg and Berlin 

  “Today when the hunger strike has reached a critical level, support actions are crucial and must be organised everywhere. It is important to embrace this resistance which will surely win."
• Women against isolation in Paris, Rennes and Hannover  

  Kurdish women organised actions against isolation in Paris, Rennes and Hannover. 
• Terrible tally of violence against women in South Kurdistan 

  A total of 1.532 cases of violence against women were recorded in South Kurdistan in January and February.
• FARC Senator Victoria Sandino: We're not the ones afraid of truth 

  FARC Senator Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera has issued a press release about the ongoing statements of women who claim to have been victims of various types of sexual crimes by the former FARC-EP guerrilla movement.
• YJA Star: 2019 is the Newroz for freedom and women’s resistance 

  YJA Star Central Headquarters Command said, “Newroz 2019 will be the Newroz of freedom” and called all women to gather around the bonfire of the new day of struggle and to meet in the freedom halay.
• TJA: Join Newroz celebrations against isolation! 

  “The message we will give on Newroz will be one of resistance. It will be the response of all peoples, especially the women, against this fascist alliance and its attacks."
• Police attacked women for Leyla Güven: 13 detained 

  13 women carrying out a “standing protest” in support of DTK Co-chair Leyla Guven were battered and detained.
• KJK: Let's turn Newroz into a process that destroys fascism  

  "The historical legacy of March 8 and the resistance led by Blacksmith Kawa are the meeting point of the struggle for the free man and the free woman."
• PAJK: Let’s raise the struggle with the spirit of freedom 

  PAJK celebrated Newroz Day for all women, all the youth, all Kurdish people and all who seek freedom and called to raise the struggle with the spirit of resistance and freedom.
• Photograph exhibition on Kurdish women in Paris 

  The exhibition opened on Friday at Montreuil Women's House and depicts Kurdish women and their struggle.
• Women of Deir ez-Zor organize 

  Al-Basira Women’s Assembly continues to organize under women’s communes to resolve issues women face.
• Women’s institutions in Northern and Eastern Syria come together 

  Women’s institutions in Northern and Eastern Syria are coming together to hold a meeting with the motto, “Build the free and democratic society with the unity of free women”.
• Sweden’s Feminist Initiative proposes EU ministers visit Guven 

  The Feminist Initiative party in Sweden proposed that a delegation of European Union ministers visit Leyla Guven, who has been on a hunger strike for over 120 days.
• Hawrami Women’s Platform in Bashur salutes Guven’s protest 

  Hawrami Women’s Platform from Southern Kurdistan (Bashur) sent a letter to DTK Co-chair who has been on a hunger strike protesting the isolation imposed upon Kurdish Peoples’ Leader Abdullah Ocalan and saluted her protest.