The Workers Solidarity Federation, friends of IWA in Pakistan will participate to
the Aurat March (English: «Women's March») in Karachi the 12th of March: ----«Don't forget the brave afghan, Iranian and Pakistani women for their struggleagainst fascist regimes and patriarchy on International Working Women's Day.Let's hope for a better world where we all feel safe and loved. ---- On the 12thof March, Workers Solidarity Federation, , will join Aurat March in KarachiAuratMarchKHI with banners to support the struggle of afghan, Iranian andPakistani women and forced conversion of minor girls along with transgenderpeople rights! Do join us for a better world!«Protect the life of transgenders!We are against the enforced conversion of minor girls in Pakistan!Stop the forced disappearance of Baloch women!Give Afghan women the right to education and life!We stand with the women of IranThe Aurat March is an annual socio-political demonstration organized since 2018in Pakistani cities such as Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta toobserve International Women's Right Day.The march manifesto demands economic justice, including implementation of laborrights and the Protection Against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act, 2010,recognition of women's unpaid contributions to the «care economy», and provisionof maternity leave and daycare centers to ensure women's inclusion in the laborforce. It also demands access to safe air and drinking water, protection ofanimals and wildlife, recognition of women's participation in the production offood and cash crops, access to a fair judicial system, the inclusion of womenwith disabilities and the transgender community, reproductive justice, access topublic spaces, inclusion in educational institutions, etc ...Women and men carry posters with slogans such as Ghar ka Kaam, Sab ka Kaam(«Housework is everyone's work»), and Mera Jism Meri Marzi («My body, my choice»)became a rallying cry.Mera Jism Meri Marzi (lit. 'My body, my choice)Mera Jism Meri Marzi (lit. 'My body, my choice') is a slogan used by feminists inPakistan to demand bodily autonomy and protest gender-based violence.Other popular slogans are:Nazar teri gandi aur purdah mein keroun («Why do I adopt the veil because of yourbad habit of ogling?»)Agar dupatta itna pasand hai tou apni aankhon pe bandh lo («If you like the scarfso much, then tie it around your eyes»)Tu kare tou Stud, Mai Karun tou Slut («If you do it, you're a stud, but if I doit, I'm a slut»)Khana khud garam karo («Ready the food yourself»)Aurat March, 2020Conservatives, right wing and islamists objects to those slogans which they thinkto be contrary to their Islamic ideology and allegedly promote vulgarity as wellas western culture and agenda. Opponents of the Aurat March accused itsorganizers on social media of flying a French flag,while the flag of the WomenDemocratic Front is red, white, and purple... The most radical opponents addedthreats to stop Aurat March by force if it includes slogans not acceptable to them.In 2021, according to Pakistan's minister for religious affairs and interfaithharmony, Noorul Haq Qadri, Islamic societies are the best in protecting women'srights, Qadri says Aurat March banners, placards and slogans do not match withthe Pakistan's social, political and religious standard imbibed in the collectivethought of the Pakistani people, and that individual or civil societyparticipating in Aurat March ought not to get leeway to undermine the religiousinjunctions and instead Aurat March be celebrated as Hijab day to focusdiscrimination by Hindu extremists against Muslim minorities in India. each yearsmarches are organized amidst intimidation and attacks.http://cnt-ait.info/2023/03/10/aurat-march-en/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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