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The Aurat Azadi March (Urdu: عورت آزادی مارچ, lit. 'Women's Emancipation March') was started in 2018 [1] in Pakistan by members of Women Democratic Front [2] [3] (socialist-feminist organization), other organizations like Women's Action Forum (Women's rights organization), Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls alliance, Young Teachers Association, Home-Based Women ...
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.
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.
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.
A charred lorry, empty tear gas shells and posters of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan - it was all that remained of a massive protest led by Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, that had sent the ...
The demonstration was inspired by South Korea’s “4B” movement against gender-based violence where some women in that country have vowed to follow the four “no’s” — no sex, no dating ...
A mural in Vienna shows a Kurdish woman and the slogan of "Woman, Life, Freedom" (in Kurdish) A "Woman, life, freedom" sign written in German by Iranian protesters at Paris during Mahsa Amini protests A sign with the slogan written in Kurdish and English by Iranian protesters at 2022-23 Iranian Mahsa Amini protests
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.