Aurat March 2024 mobilized in multiple Pakistani cities, underscoring its durability and expanding demands to economic, environmental, and reproductive justice.
On March 8, 2024, the Aurat March convened for its seventh consecutive year, with demonstrations held in multiple Pakistani cities. The persistence of the march across seven years, spanning changes in national government, economic crises, and shifting social attitudes, underscored its durability as a fixture of Pakistani civil society.
The 2024 iteration broadened its manifesto to give greater prominence to economic justice, reflecting the severe cost-of-living crisis affecting Pakistani women, particularly those in informal and domestic labour sectors. Environmental justice also featured prominently, connecting climate change impacts — such as the catastrophic 2022 floods — to gendered vulnerabilities and displacement.
Reproductive justice remained a core pillar, with continued advocacy for access to healthcare, contraception, and protection from forced marriage and early marriage practices still prevalent in parts of the country.
Commentators noted that despite continual attempts at legal suppression and social media misinformation campaigns falsely attributing extremist content to organizers, the march had achieved a durable place in Pakistan's activist calendar, with international observers and women's rights organizations regularly citing it as a benchmark example of grassroots feminist organizing in a conservative, patriarchal national context.