Monthly Newsletter: Women’s Revolution on March 2024

Development and agenda of the women‘s revolution in North and East Syria

April 1, 2024

In this newsletter, we are highlighting important events from the women‘s movement in North and East Syria which happened in March. In North and East of Syria, March 8 was celebrated from February 24 to March 8 by the Women‘s Action Platform. The celebration included cultural productions, demonstrations across cities and cantons, seminars for men and women and other activities detailed in the newsletter. Kongra Star wrote a letter to women on the occasion of March 8 and visited the women‘s village Jinwar. As part of International Working Women‘s Day activities. The Women’s Communication Union organised a panel for women journalists and reporters to discuss their role in changing society, and the barriers that they face. The women‘s movement and organizations of Raqqa canton announced that they are joining the campaign of the Yezidi Women‘s Freedom Movement against the genocide of women. Newroz was also celebrated across the region, as both an important cultural day and the advent of the new year, and a day of resistance against colonialism and assimilation.