Why We Protest: Aurat March

The women’s movement in Pakistan had begun in the late 1970s as a response to the edicts of General Zia-ul-Haq’s brutal regime. The movement was in response to laws that essentially stripped women of their human rights. Their tireless campaigning did not stop until the end of Zia's rule and the...

23 min - World Affairs & Investigations - VICE

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