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Aurat Azadi March Islamabad

21 Feb, 7 tweets, 3 min read

Our posters for this year commemorate the connected struggles for women’s emancipation across Pakistan, as women fight for safety, well-being, recognition and equality across geographies, cultures and faiths.

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This poster honours in particular the women of Balochistan leading the non-violent movement against enforced disappearances and injustices in Balochistan.

It remind us of the staggering diversity of women’ s concerns, which go far beyond the domestic sphere and are determined by political and socio-economic structures and inequalities that we often unquestioningly accept and take for granted.

It reminds us of the need for our feminism to attend to all contexts beyond our immediate comfort zones. And for the need for genuine solidarity that can create the basis for healing and a universal sisterhood.

Join us this 8th of March, 2021 in defending women's right to live a life free from violence and socioeconomic inequality and oppression.

Artist: Isma Gul Hasan

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The variations and others colors of @AuratAzadiMarch posters can be downloaded for free and printed in HQ at linktr.ee/IsmaGul

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The Islamabad High Court has dismissed the arguments in the petition against the Aurat Azadi March!

These were the remarks by Chief Justice Athar Minallah on the petition submitted against us:

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Have you read the demands issued by the organizers circulated widely on media & able to highlight anything unconstitutional or unIslamic? On what basis can you hypothesize is that there demands & slogans are bound to be unIslamic? Do you have any evidence to support your claim?

"The Aurat Azadi March organizers have already clarified the meaning of the slogans being impugned & how they fall within the rights already granted by the Constitution of Pakistan & by Islam. How can the petitioners say 'that is wrong' & attribute a negative meaning to them?"

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