THE March
A society without exploitative, patriarchal structures. This year’s theme is khudmukhtari, the right to control over resources, bodies, the justice system, health and education.
We demand an end of IMF-sponsored economic policies and budget cuts and immediate control of inflation of basic foodstuffs whose burden is felt by working class women and gender and sexual minorities. To ensure a minimum life of dignity for all the minimumtvage should be increased to a living wage of Rs. 40,000.
Defamation laws to be de-criminalized and amendments passed to civil laws ensure they are not used silence survivors of sexual violence.
The definition of workplace be expanded to ensure that all workplaces, including independent contractors, informal and subcontracted labour, is covered by anti-harassment laws.
Domestic violence be effectively criminalized in all provinces and territories in Pakistan. And uniform laws on setting the minimum age of marriage at 18 for all persons across Pakistan along with immediate legislation on stopping forced religious conversions.
Anti-harassment laws and sexual assault laws be amended to include all genders as potential complainants, including gender and sexual minorities. And every workplace and educational institution immediately constitute independent inquiry committees against sexual harassment as required by law an anti-harassment committee with immediate effect.
Campuses be demilitarized and surveillance of students in the name of security be ceased.
Justice for all the families of those who have been victims of enforced disappearances. We demand that all disappeared individuals be brought before civilian courts, and their right to due process upheld under the Constitution of Pakistan.