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NEWS CENTER – The World March of Women will join a march of women workers in the Bosnian city of Tuzla, known for its workers' rebellions. The march has spent the last few weeks in Belgrade, supporting Serbian LGBTQI women.

The World March of Women is an international action taking place for the fifth time this year, traveling the world building solidarity with women against the exploitation of their labor, bodies and environments. The March started on March 6 in Nusaybin, Turkey, along the border with Rojava, to call attention to the women's revolution taking place in Rojava. After passing through Turkey and Greece, the March has been spending the last several weeks in the Balkans.

From April 1 to 19, the March, led by the European Feminist Caravan, has been in Belgrade in solidarity with Serbian lesbian women in struggle. In recent years, Serbian authorities have frequently forbidden pride marches in Belgrade, but the LGBTQI community in the Serbian capital has continued to struggle. After a September Gay Pride march, Serbian lesbians planned a lesbian march for April 19. The World March of Women joined in to support lesbians' struggle.

Today, the World March of Women is scheduled to join a march of women's workers in the city of Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, a city with a history of workers' struggle against the post-Soviet privatization policies that have attempted to ruin workers' livelihood. Famous Tuzla woman union leader Emina Busuladjic, known for her role in organizing the grassroots workers' and women's Plenum movement that emerged in the 1990s, is expected to be at the march.

The march today comes two days before the anniversary of the Rana Plaza workplace massacre, when 1,100 mostly women workers were killed in Bangladesh. The women hope to draw attention to the solidarity of women workers across the world.

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