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NEWS CENTER – The international women's action the World March of Women has spent the past weeks in Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia, sharing experiences with women in resistance.

This year, the World March of Women launched its international action in the border city of Nusaybin, just across the border from Rojava, to honor the women's revolution ongoing there. Now, after passing through Northern Kurdistan, Turkey and Greece, the march has visited women in Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia with the leadership of Europe's Feminist Caravan.

The march reached Bucharest on March 28, where they met with the Vulturilor 50: women resisting evictions and demanding the right to housing in the Romanian capital. Women from Spain and Portuguese discussed similar experiences in their countries over recent years. The following day, women met with Roma women to discuss grassroots organizing to improve Roma women's situation and fight child marriage.

On March 3 and 4, the women headed to the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. There, they joined the women's theatre group Beyond Borders: Linking Our Stories, which brings together Turkish and Armenian women through theater. The women joined Beyond Borders in a theater performance.

Crossing the border to Serbia and the nearby city of Pirot, women attended a women's fair organized by the group Ženejuga (Women of the South) tosupportwomen'seconomicin dependence. Dozens of women vendorssoldtheirwares at thefair. Womenalsoattendedclassesand workshops in knittingandhulahooping.

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