Eve Ensler recently spoke with Yanar Mohammed about the impact of the U.S. military invasion and occupation of Iraq, the people’s uprisings in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, and the horrific violence, fear and trauma that Iraqi…

READ the original article online in the Swazi Observer  05/10/2015 By Observer Reporter The 2016 One Billion Rising Revolution event is yet another amplification of the OBR (One Billion Rising) voices, building the momentum, escalating the gains, calling for accountability and raising our voices to the injustices taking place worldwide…

Read the original article online at The Point Thursday, October 01, 2015 In preparation for the 2016 Rising Revolution, the “One Billion Rising Revolution 2016” will be launched on the 5th October 2015 at GAMCOTRAP’s headquarters in Kanifing as part of the global launching throughout the world.The theme for 2016…

The following launch statement was shared by Global Coordinator Nyasha Sengayi: Listen! Act! RISE! Zimbabwe once again joins the globe in the biggest campaign against violence on women and girls across the world. In responding to a call to dance, One Billion Rising Zimbabwe has been a FORCE and energy drawing…

One Billion Rising 2016 Campaign Announced:   ESCALATING THE CALL FOR REVOLUTION IN 2016 It has been a most amazing THREE years of the campaign. Our collective efforts mobilised, engaged, awakened and joined people worldwide to end violence against women. We made violence against women a global human issue not relegated…

Following call was sent from afghan grassroots women’s activist Zoya: The women of Afghanistan have been living a catastrophic life for the past four decades. Today they are in the captivity of different sides in a complex ongoing war: they are suppressed by the misogynist Jehadi gangs, the incompetent and corrupt…

This Rise For Climate Justice and Mother Earth Report was written and shared by Jessica Montoya, the One Billion Rising Coordinator, New Mexico: One Billion Rising: Rise for Revolution is a radical escalation of our combined global efforts to raise awareness of the connection between violence against women and girls to…

The following newsletter was shared widely by the One Billion Rising Global Coordinator in India with their network of risers and partner organizations:

On 20 September, activists in Gambia ROSE for Mother Earth. GAMCOTRAP in collaboration with Young People Without Borders (YPWB) a youth CBO in Sifo village, and COPI, another youth organisation fron Sindian in the Republic of Senegal, engaged the youths of Sifo and Sindian in a massive tree planting exercise…

  ONE BILLION RISING REVOLUTION 2016 The 2016 One Billion Rising Revolution event is yet another amplification of our voices, building the momentum, escalating the gains, calling for accountability and raising our voices to the injustices taking place worldwide with women’s bodies targeted as the arena of war and violence….