Thanks for joining us on 8 March to raise our voices for minority rights, trans rights, against inflation, enforced disappearances, GBV, & other issues!
Another brother kills another sister in Pakistan — this time because she committed the grave crime of not serving him food fast enough (as reported by the Daily Kawish newspaper on 29th March).
Aakhir kab tak?
We demand an end to this violence on our bodies. We demand the
Your police killed an innocent political worker from an opposition party in Lahore, your police baton charged Aurat Marchers in Islamabad & hurt women and even transgender persons, your police tore dresses of women PTI workers! All on
#InternationalWomensDay
#AuratMarch2023
Today we acknowledge, applaud & pay tribute to our women for their heroic struggle & incredible contribution to society. The odds could not have been heavier but their resolve to navigate through them is what gives us hope in the future..
1/2
We are heartbroken & outraged that PTI political worker Ali Bilal (Zille Shah), a person with disability, was murdered by the state in Lahore yesterday. He was only exercising his right to peaceful assembly (which he often turned festive) & 🗣 protest!
#StopThisFascism
Aurat March extends solidarity & love to thousands of protestors marching against
#BalochGenocide
, led by Baloch women. The march has reached Taunsa in Punjab. You can hear the loud chants- End Genocide of the Baloch!. Will the state ignore the chants of thousands of people?
🚨 ATTENTION: Lawyer & activist Jibran Nasir has been abducted by na maloom afraad from inside his car. We strongly condemn his abduction (which is a clear violation of citizen rights) & urge the govt & LEAs to ensure his immediate + unconditional safe release.
#FreeJibranNasir
We are so very proud of the living legend and trailblazing Pakistani feminist artivist, Sheema Kermani! She raised her voice for Falasteen at a programme celebrating the birthday of King Charles III, at the British Deputy High Commission, and was subsequently kicked out.
We strongly condemn such sexist remarks against Bushra Bibi by a government representative. It is disgusting that political parties have normalised sexist attacks on women from opponent groups. That this statement is coming from the party of Maryam Nawaz, who herself remains a..
72 سالہ لڑکا کہہ رہا ہے کہ میری 75 سالہ بیوی زمان پارک گھر میں اکیلی تھیں چادر اور چار دیواری کا تقدس پامال کیا گیا ہے.اگر 200 تربیت یافتہ دہشتگردوں کے حصار میں بھی اس کی بیوی اکیلی تھی تو کیا اس کے ارد گرد 4,5 ہزار مسلح لوگ ہوں تو یہ اسے محفوظ سمجھے گا؟ وفاقی وزیر میاں جاویدلطیف
Aurat March mourns the loss of Pakistan Women's Hockey Team player Shahida Raza, who was among 60 migrants who died after their boat sank in rough seas off southern Italy. Raza belonged to Shia Hazara community of Balochistan..
#ProtectHazaraShias
#AuratMarch2023
Aurat March strongly condemns the brutal police action against PTI supporters in Lahore that killed this innocent man today for only exercising his constitutional right to protest. The use of excessive force was totally unjustified which hurt many men & women..
#StopThisFacism
I must tell you did a sin ,he was innocent,he did nothing wrong. He was in Zaman Park from day 1 just for love of Quaid Imran. Today he has given his life for him. You should scare of tears of his mother's. You have to pay for it.💔
#ArrestKamyanaAndMohsin
This is a special message to all the women who do household work, bring out all the bartans which have been used to oppress you and your likes for centuries.
This 8th March, get ready to smash the patriarchy with your bartans!
Aao, patriarchy ki band bajatay hain 💪🥁
Listen to roaring chants of Baloch women who continue to be the face of resistance against state repression & violence. Feminist salam to all Baloch women leading this mass movement against extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances & rights abuses!
#BalochGenocide
Maria, a 22-year-old girl, fell victim to the hands of her own brothers and father, who callously suffocated her to death with a pillow. This heinous crime, perpetrated within the supposed safety of her own home, sends shockwaves through our society, demanding urgent attention
This year, we protest with our hunger. We march with our fury.
The 2022 floods devastated Sindh and parts of Balochistan, Punjab and KP. In other rural and urban areas, continually increasing food prices and petrol hikes have halted the lives of the working class.
What a farewell! “Even his knuckles & fingers were broken when I kissed them.” Mother of Mashal Khan, who became victim of the state & society’s ruthlessness inside a university campus in KP on April 13 2017!
#RememberingMashalKhan
93% of women on Pakistan have reported that they have been sexually assaulted.
70% of them have said it was by a member of their own family.
Artist: Hirah S
#auratmarch2020
#auratmarch
#feministartforAM
On July 15, Umer Memon beat his wife Quratulain to death in front of their four children in Hyderabad. Post-mortem report confirmed brutal violence on her. This is a country that has continuously refused to criminalise domestic violence & abuse.
#JusticeForQuratulain
We condemn the political circus that has erupted due to the fragile masculine ego of a person who has sabotaged democratic processes just to save the perception of his individuality and to stage a dirty manoeuvre for his comeback to power.
#NoConfidenceMotion
#AuratMarch2022
🪧🪧🪧🪧🪧🪧🪧🪧
I march for the young Hindu widows from Tharparker who can’t marry even if the husband dies on the second day of marriage! 🪧🪧🪧🪧🪧
#AuratMarch2023
We're saddened by
@ShireenMazari1
's sudden announcement to quit politics. While we don't ally with any pol party, we believe that a political leader with decades of experience being intimidated & pushed out of politics is a dark day for women's political participation in Pakistan
It's important to keep in mind that menstruation is a biological process & biology is different from gender (which is socially constructed).
Not all those who have a uterus are women & not all women have a uterus. Reducing a woman down to a uterus is misogynistic.
#AuratMarch
Cringe. Disgusting 🤢
ملک کا لڑ لڑ کے کس نے برا حشر کیا ہے؟؟؟
Stop normalising sexism against women politicians. Misogyny is not comedy 🎭 nor funny. Use your brains to create some quality content & stop relying on women hatred as the leading way of “entertainment”!
Four years ago on this day, Dr. Nimerta Kumari was killed after being sexually assaulted inside her hostel room in Larkana. For four years, college administrators & Sindh government have done a great job in defending her rapists, her murderers!
#JusticeForNimertaKumari
Please join us outside the Karachi Press Club today at 4 PM as we protest alongside Jibran's family and friends for his immediate release.
#ReleaseJibranNasir
#AuratMarch2023
Good news: Jibran Nasir has been released! Let’s hope all those who've been missing — from Baloch, Pashtun and Sindhi persons to lawyers & journalists including Samiullah Memon & Imran Riaz Khan — come back home. Our fight to end forced disappearances will persist till that time.
This year, we march for our labor. This year, we march for the burden that is placed on us and our bodies. This year we march with our rage and anger and demand acknowledgement, recognition and reward for this burden.
#HamariMehnatHamaraHaq
#UjratTahafuzzaurSukoon
We demand
@AnsarAAbbasi
&
@ovaismangalwala
to apologize to Aurat March for spreading fake & heinous allegations. As journalists, they are responsible to verify facts & report. Apologize to women & trans women of Pakistan for attacking their movement with false propaganda.
TW
This man Ghayoor stabbed a young girl Iqra in Hyderabad last night & left her to die in middle of a road. Iqra kept calling for help & before succumbing to injuries testified Ghayoor & another man attacked her. The man has confessed killing Iqra, age 22.
#JusticeForIqra
It is our express request to media houses to send sensitised journalists/women journalists to cover the protests. As allies to our cause we hope that you will consider this request and not sensationalise our demands.
ہم وہ بیان نہیں کر سکتے جو کچھ عورت مارچ کے بغض میں کیا گیا لیکن ایک بات طے ہے کہ حکومت کو جھوٹے صحافیوں پر نہ صرف پابندی لگانی چاہیے بلکہ ذمہ داروں کو فوری گرفتار بھی کرنا چاہیے۔
#AuratMarch2021
#FakeReporting
As Afghan refugees face deportation from Pakistan, Ibrahim Zadran dedicates his Player of the Match Award in today's men's cricket match to them. We hope this helps bring global attention to their plight & forces the Pakistani State to stop its criminal negligence towards them.
Aurat March Karachi, Islamabad, Multan, and Lahore denounce state violence & military interference in politics. We're deeply troubled by the political impasse, plunging Pakistan into uncertainty, amplifying the struggles of the working class, especially women.
#AuratMarch2023
The intimidation & harassment by the establishment in Islamabad hasnt stopped this incredible struggle led by Baloch Women. Thousands present in Quetta to protest enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings. Feminist salam & solidarity!
#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide
This
@ICT_Police
man has the audacity to batoncharge our bodies, harass n intimidate us, stop us from marching, threaten us & then scream on us “don’t touch me.”Toxic masculinity & privilege at its peak!
Salute to brave Aurat Marchers for confronting him!
#MarchTuHoga
We strongly condemn the vile and misogynistic remarks made by former MPA + MNA & current
@PPP_Org
member, Nabil Gabol, whereby he joked about and trivialized rape in the most disgusting manner. We demand that the PPP urgently suspends his membership permanently.
@BBhuttoZardari
Bohat khoob! Aik baar phir Nawaz Sharif, PML-N ke sarbarah ne siyasi mukhalifat mein khawateen ki siyasi sargarmiyon pe sasti juggat ki. Unhon ne abhi tak yeh nahi seekha ke khawateen ko 'achi' aurat aur 'buri' aurat mein taqseem karna pathron ke zamanay ka tareeqa-e-kar hai. 1/3
Activist and lawyer Jibran Nasir’s whereabouts unknown after he was ‘picked up’ from near his residence by unidentified armed men late Thursday night.
#JibranNasir
#MissingAlert
#Karachi
#DSTV
Yesterday's lollipops, today's turtles. At least animals are an upgrade from objects. Progress, ladies. The day that we are seen as people is not far. ✌🏽
The harassment continues. Sindh Police have illegally picked up 7 Baloch women & multiple men from outside Karachi Press Club, during BYC's press conference inside the KPC about the state oppression facing their people. We demand the Sindh Police to release them all NOW!
To our participants - we suggest you not consent to have your picture taken by media persons or photographers who are NOT wearing Aurat March lanyards!
This year we march to seek justice for domestic workers. We demand that the state recognize them as workers and declare and impose a minimum wage, overtime pay and formal employment contracts for domestic workers.
#UjratTahafuzaurSukoon
#AuratMarch2022
A woman messaged us to upload her poster on our page. She couldn't attend the march because her family did not "allow" her to go march for her and other marginalized women's rights. This woman is 18+ years old and ideally she shouldn't be needing a 'permission' to go somewhere,
اس سال ہم گھریلو ملازمین کے لیے انصاف کے حصول کے لیے مارچ کر رہے ہیں۔ ہم مطالبہ کرتے ہیں کہ ریاست انہیں بطور ورکر تسلیم کرے اور گھریلو ملازمین کے لیے کم از کم اجرت، اوور ٹائم تنخواہ اور باقاعدہ ملازمت کے معاہدے کا اعلان اور نفاذ کرے۔
#AuratMarch2022
#UjratTahaffuzAurSukoon
Aurat March strongly condemns the gruesome murder of educationist Dr. Ajmal Sawand over an honour related tribal conflict in Kashmore. The young professor, with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from France, was serving as a teacher at IBA Sukkur.
#JusticeForAjmalSawand
Imdad Joyo and his daughters had been protesting for a long time against attempts of local sardars in Jhal Magsi to occupy his lands. The activist farmer was brutally killed trying to save his land & nobody provided them with security or justice. We demand
#JusticeForImdadJoyo
People w/ uteruses typically menstruate for 4 decades & account for about 50% of the population. Despite this, societal attitudes toward
#menstruation
reek of misogyny — which is found inside schools, universities, workplaces, homes, and even the healthcare sector!
#AuratMarch
We condemn PMLN's Khawaja Asif's misogynistic remarks against PTI women parliamentarians. Addressing a joint parliament session two days ago, he remarked & we quote: "Jis shakhs ko auratein defend karein uski jurrat aur bahaaduri kya hogi". (1/4)
#SexismInPolitics
AM Karachi is appalled and outraged that the violence against women protestors in Punjab has escalated to the police now making open rape threats and publicly sexually harassing the women being taken into custody.
@IGP_Punjab
@CMShehbaz
Bring out these tools, whose usage is glued to your identity - as if you are just a cook, and as if you aren't a woman unless you know how to cook - to show your oppressors what you are capable of doing using the very tools through which they demean you.
ہمارا دوسرا مطالبہ ہے فوجی اخراجات میں کمی کا اور فوج کے غیر جنگی اخراجات کا خاتمہ۔ ہم سویلین حکومتوں کے غیر معمولی اخراجات میں کمی کا مطالبہ کرتے ہیں، یہ رقم فوری طور پہ سیلاب سے متاثرہ خاندانوں کی بحالی کے لیے مختص کی جائے۔
#RiyasatJawabDouBhookKaHisaabDou
#AuratMarch2023
We have talked about our labor these past few weeks. We will take the next few days to talk about the labor we do in our relationships and in our homes (1/7)
3 years.
Next Saturday, it'll be 3 years since the tragic & heart-wrenching news of Noor Mukadam's murder shook us all to the core. During these 3 years, multiple other harrowing cases of GBV have come to the surface & a lot more haven't even made it to a piece of reported news.
In the interest of justice and accountability we are making public this letter that was sent to Dawn on 16 June 2021. In the letter it was clearly stated that if there is no response to our letter, we would publicly demand accountability.
#MeToo
Feminists across Pakistan condemn the recent decision by the President to award the Pride of Performance to Ali Zafar; while he has been accused of sexual misconduct pending verdicts.
Join us tomorrow to protest against patriarchal violence, rape culture and victim blaming.
Saturday, Sept 12, 4 pm
Karachi Press Club
#MeraJismMeriMarzi
What a terrible day for democracy in Pakistan as the SC has allowed military trials of civilians (PTI workers involved in the 9 May riots) to continue today, suspending its own Oct 2023 unanimous ruling against the same. Sham democracy, invisible martial law!
#AuratMarch
S is for Sanwali
To the brown, the dark, the sanwli, the kali - You are beautiful and you are lovely. More than that, you are powerful, your humanity is valid, and you are enough.
#AtoZFeminism
#AuratMarch2020
#AuratMarch
Women from Sindhiani Tehreek pay tribute to their leader Rasool Bux Palijo with a bike rally in Thatta, Sindh. Palijo founded Sindhiani Tehreek, a women only political movement in early 1980s which continues to fight for human rights.
#SindhianiTehreek
Q is for Qandeel
No one shook the patriarchy using digital media more than Qandeel Baloch. A renegade, a rebel, a firecracker, she smiled, giggled and batted her lashes in the ultimate display of fearless femininity.
#atozfeminism
#auratmarch2020
It has been 5 years of Aurat March and we are re imagining our future.
Saathion, join us tonight as we talk about a
#feminist
world... Hamari duniya! Tell us what your thoughts are in our Twitter Space 'Feminist Futures: Jaisi Dunya Chaho Tum' at 9 PM?
Today we marched with our Baloch sisters in Karachi against enforced disappearances, illegal confinement, harassment by authorities & all injustices they are facing. Our brave sisters are symbol of Baloch struggle for their rights 🙌
#StopEnforcedDisapperances
#AuratMarch2023
We demand an end to abduction, harassment, forced marriages, sexual grooming, rape, & forced conversions of girls and women from religious minorities. We demand that the state urgently passes the anti-forced conversion law
#StopForcedConversions
#AuratMarch2024
Sindhiani Tehreek women are protesting in Karachi against federal govt plan for construction of a new city on Dingi & Bundal islands on Karachi coast that would harm ecosystem as well as deprive thousands of local fishermen of their means of income.
#SindhRejectsIslandOrdinance
Another disgusting & sexist tweet by a political worker. We again say anyone using such language should not be given any party positions or election tickets! Pol. parties should also do their introspection & call out own leaders/workers for sexist comments not just opponents.
We bear witness to the ongoing genocide in Balochistan & to Baloch people's resistance against it—as Baloch women lead the struggle. This year we talk about the militaristic control of our bodies thru enforced disappearances & extrajudicial killings of Baloch people. Join us!
victim of sexist slurs is all the more concerning. We demand the government and all political parties stop this misogynist tradition which targets women due to their gender. Such practice should lead to strict punitive action by government as well as Election Commission.
We protested yesterday to express complete solidarity with
#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide
, &made the urgent demand to release the arrested protestors, and end the heinous practice of missing persons & extrajudicial killing. We stand with our baloch sisters and their struggle.
جب آزادی کے نعرے گونجے:
ماہی گیر کا نعرہ، ڈاکٹر کا نعرہ
سندھی کا نعرہ، بلوچ کا نعرہ
پشتون کا نعرہ، گلگت کا نعرہ
پنجاب بھی مانگے، یہ سندھی مانگے آزادی
بلوچ بھی مانگے آزادی
پشتون بھی مانگے آزادی
ہر عورت مانگے
ہر مزدور مانگے آزادی
کسان مانگے آزادی
ہر بچہ مانگے آزادی
This is how men like Mohsin Abbas Haider build credibility. By attending Aurat Marches and being performative allies while continuing their violent ways behind closed doors.
To him and ukhano,
#TimesUp
the advice on this placard is being followed.
Attempting to silence even the potential for dissent, the Pakistani state keeps stooping lower every day instead of truthfully addressing the demands of those it oppresses such as the Baloch people.
We demand that Sammi's name be immediately removed from the ECL.
#AuratMarch
"I do not wish to be part of an accolade that is shared with an alleged harasser." - Eman Suleman, we are emboldened by your courage and inspired by this sacrifice. May we all be as resolute and compassionate in our struggle for justice.
@eman_anjum
hi queen ♥️
JOIN US IN PROTEST this Thursday at 5 PM against the militaristic control of our bodies, as seen most recently through the court's extremely concerning judgment regarding
#iddatcase
, which is a reflection of our patriarchal system that polices, surveils and violates our bodies
We will clank them together; bang and smack them to the ground until they pierce the masculinity of the oppressors who have turned the utensils which help feed them into symbols of your subordination.
On 16 Sept 2019, Dr. Nimerta Chandani was found dead in her hostel room in Larkana. Police presumed that she had committed suicide. A post-mortem report confirmed she was sexually assaulted before being murdered. It’s been THREE long years!
#JusticeForNimerta
Most desi marriages, esp arranged ones, view women (& even girls) as baby-making machines whose womanhood is tied to their uterus. That's why many married women are threatened with divorce + doosri shadi if they can't/don't want to reproduce.
#MeraJismMeriMarzi
#AuratMarch2023
دوستوں، ساتھیوں، انسانیت کا احساس رکھنے والوں، آج ہم مظلوم افغان مہاجرین کے لئیے انصاف کے مطالبے کو لے کر سڑک پے نکلینگےتاکہ ریاست لاچار لوگوں کو ملک بدر کرنے کا اپنا انسان-دشمن فیصلہ فالفور واپس لے۔
کراچی، لاہور، اسلام آباد تا ملتان۔ پریس کلب، دوپہر ساڑھے تین بجے۔
#AuratMarch