‘Aurat March 2020’: Women's rights rally held nationwide to mark International Women's Day

Women across the country came out on Sunday (March 8) to mark International Women’s Day by joining the ‘Aurat March2020’. This year the ‘Aurat March’ was once again held in various cities like Karachi, Lahore, Sukkur,Multan, Quetta and Islamabad. The marches were attended by women, children, men, and also transgender people.

Over the past two years, the ‘Aurat March’ has turned into a massive resistance movement against the violence, abuse, rape, sexual harassment, forced marriages, honour killings, acid attacks, pay disparity, and inheritance rights among other human rights violations

The theme for this year's march was "Mera Jism, Meri Marzi" (My body, my choice), which according to the organisers' manifesto, is about demanding a society without unfair patriarchal structures and control of economic resources, the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies, and ending harassment, forced religious conversions and the sexist portrayal of women in the media, among other things.

A participant holds a placard — that reads "Respect our bodies, our words, our thoughts, our labor, demanding fundamental rights, Woman Freedom’ — during the ‘Aurat March’. Here are some pictures

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