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On 12 February 1983, a women's march was held in Lahore, Pakistan.The march was led by the Women's Action Forum (WAF) and the Punjab Women Lawyers Association. It assembled at Mall Road in Lahore to proceed toward the Lahore High Court in Pakistan to protest against the discriminatory Law of Evidence and other Hudood Ordinances.
Marchers holding placards during Aurat March 2020. The Aurat March (Urdu: عورت مارچ, lit. ' Women's March ') is an annual socio-political demonstration in Pakistani cities such as Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar and Islamabad to observe International Women's Day.
In 2018, Aurat Azadi March was held on March 8 when Women Democratic Front (WDF), was founded at the National Press Club, Islamabad. After the foundation congress, the participants held the March from the press club to Nazimudin Road raising slogans against war, violence, exploitation of working-class women and anti-women tribal and feudal traditions.
The belief that women would vote as a block, a widespread fear during the suffrage movement, was proven wrong with the development of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. There were also many women who joined auxiliary groups to fight alongside their husbands or other male relations against the Eighteenth Amendment.
1990: Movement for the Restoration of Democracy protests against the government's rigging of elections. [6] 1992: Protests against the demolition of the Babri Masjid in India. [7] 1997: Lawyers' movement protests against the government's attempts to remove the Chief Justice of Pakistan. [8] 1977 Pakistan uprising
Together, the women protest in public spaces, demanding “bread, education, and freedom,” and meet behind closed doors to plan their next demonstration and retain some semblance of a social life.
Women from a university in Madhya Pradesh, India, have taken part in a new protest against men who have beards - because of the chafing caused when they kiss. Wearing beard wigs and holding ...
Women-led uprisings are mass protests that are initiated by women as an act of resistance or rebellion in defiance of an established government. A protest is a statement or action taken part to express disapproval of or object an authority, most commonly led in order to influence public opinion or government policy .