The following was prepared by Dr. Isatou Touray, One Billion Rising Gambia Coordinator & Executive Director GAMCOTRAP on the historic national ban on female genital mutilation:  Fellow Gambians today marks an important day for the Gambia Feminist Movement in their effort to end female genital mutilation over a period of thirty years…

December 18, 2015 Azad Foundation organized a One Billion Rising (OBR) event in Jahangirpuri, a low-income area of Delhi, on December 17, 2015. Azad Foundation does extensive work with and for women, including a program that trains resource-poor women in Delhi, Kolkata, Jaipur and Indore as taxi drivers. Only women…

Militarization of communities has led to forcible evacuations of Lumads. Their livelihood has been disrupted. Community infrastructure like schools, clinics, collective farms have been destroyed. And anywhere where military are deployed, not only is it the harassment of the communities that escalates – but also specifically violence against women and…

The first big piece of news is that the Government has finally agreed, for the first time, to set the record straight about the around 350,000 women who were sterilized against their will (or without their consent) during the Fujimori regime in the mid-1990s. We made possible, right after 14 Feb,…

Samarthyam held an event 6 December, 2015 to promote Accessgirl and raised awareness on reclaiming public spaces and streets to make these accessible and safe for girls and women with disabilities. The event celebrated the 16 Days of Activism and One Billion Rising. Led by activist Anjlee Agarwal, Samarthyam has…

From Sangat South Asia: Azad Foundation, Jagori, and Sangat came together to hold a short vigil and speak out for the more than 60 million girls and women “missing” in India. These are girls who have been aborted before birth, killed once born, or died of neglect for no other…

From Innabuyog Gabriela – the Alliance of Indigenous Women’s Organization in the Cordillera, Philippines: Students from UP Baguio held a One Billion Rising for Revolution event at the closing day of their semester 11 December, 2015 in their annual “Pasiklaban” event where they hold a lantern parade around the campus…

One Billion Rising Dumaguete launched their OBR Revolution 2016 campaign with two events: the first last November – Rising for Mother Earth and Climate Justice. V-Day and OBR Dumaguete have been Rising for the preservation of Mt. Talinis and have been at the forefront of Rising for Mother Earth since…

One Billion Rising Coordinator Abha Bhaiya and activists from Jagori Rural shared these updates of their ongoing Rise for Revolution activities across India:

WATCH Agnes Pareyio, of One Billion Rising Kenya, and 50 girls from the Tasaru Ntomonok InitiativeV-Day Safe House in Narok RISING for Revolution. (Film by Kim Rosen)