Aurat March 2023 to be held on March 12 in Karachi

This year, Aurat March will be held on March 12 instead of March 8 in Karachi. Taking to social media, the organisers issued a statement and the reasoning behind moving the march from Women's Day to the new date. 

“Aurat March Karachi will be held on March 12, 2023, this year," the Instagram post on their official page read. "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,” read the caption.

In the aforementioned statement, the organisers said that the attendees will be marching for "our hunger, social security, a living wage, an end to bonded labour, rehabilitation of flood victims, an end to mob violence, an end to domestic violence, the Transgender Persons Protection Act 2018 and to end forced conversions."

The statement further added why the organsiers decided to change 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.”

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