The first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurat_March" id="mwAVU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aurat March">Aurat March</a> (social/political demonstration) was held being <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women's_Day" id="mwAVY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="International Women's Day">International Women's Day</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi" id="mwAVc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>, Pakistan, since then annually held  across Pakistan and feminist slogan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mera_Jism_Meri_Marzi" id="mwAVg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mera Jism Meri Marzi">Mera Jism Meri Marzi</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_body,_my_choice" id="mwAVk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="My body, my choice">My body, my choice</a>), in demand for <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_right" id="mwAVo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Women's right">women's right</a> to <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodily_autonomy" id="mwAVs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bodily autonomy">bodily autonomy</a> and against <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-based_violence" id="mwAVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gender-based violence">gender-based violence</a> came into vogue in Pakistan.<sup about="#mwt219" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-41"}}' id="cite_ref-41" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_8#cite_note-41" id="mwAV0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 41;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAV4">[41]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt223" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-42"}}' id="cite_ref-42" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_8#cite_note-42" id="mwAV8" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 42;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWA">[42]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt227" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-43"}}' id="cite_ref-43" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_8#cite_note-43" id="mwAWE" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 43;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWI">[43]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-41"><cite about="#mwt216" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFChughtai2018">Chughtai, Alia (3 December 2018). <a class="external text" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/8/pakistani-women-hold-aurat-march-for-equality-gender-justice" id="mwCAk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Pakistani women march for equality, gender justice"</a>. <i id="mwCAo">www.aljazeera.com</i>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210323182550/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/8/pakistani-women-hold-aurat-march-for-equality-gender-justice" id="mwCAs" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 2021-03-23<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCAw">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCA0">2021-03-03</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt216" class="Z3988" id="mwCA4" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=www.aljazeera.com&amp;rft.atitle=Pakistani+women+march+for+equality%2C+gender+justice&amp;rft.date=2018-12-03&amp;rft.aulast=Chughtai&amp;rft.aufirst=Alia&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2019%2F3%2F8%2Fpakistani-women-hold-aurat-march-for-equality-gender-justice&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+8"></span></span>