- Aurat March Karachi will be held on March 12, 2023.
- The organizers issued a statement on Instagram.
- The city of Lahore in eastern Pakistan has denied permission for an International Women’s Day.
This year’s Aurat March will take place on March 12 rather than March 8 in Karachi. Taking to social media, the organizers issued a statement explaining why the march was moved from Women’s Day to the new date.
The Instagram post on their official page read, “Aurat March Karachi will be held on March 12, 2023, this year.” “We continue to stand in complete solidarity with the Aurat Marches in Hyderabad, Lahore, Islamabad and Multan that will be held on March 8, 2023.”
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According to the organizers, the marchers will be marching for “our hunger, social security, a living wage, an end to bonded labour, flood victim rehabilitation, an end to mob violence, an end to domestic violence, the Transgender Persons Protection Act 2018, and an end to forced conversions.”
The statement went on to explain why the organizers changed the date. “On account of March 8 being a weekday, we have decided to hold Aurat March in Karachi on Sunday, March 12 instead so that the working class communities we work with do not have to experience the distress of losing out on a day of wages. The march will be held with all its fire and energy on March 12, 2023.”
The city of Lahore in eastern Pakistan has denied permission for an International Women’s Day protest, which is frequently met with vehement opposition in the patriarchal, conservative country.
Since 2018, marches in Pakistan’s major cities have been organized to raise awareness of women’s rights.
According to a letter sent to march organizers late Friday, the decision was made due to ‘controversial cards and banners’ frequently carried by march participants, as well as security concerns.
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