ENOUGH IS ENOUGH-Images from Guyana’s team of CAR-Citizens Against Rape with Raquel Thomas-Caesar, Nicole Cole, Nicolette Elizabeth Roach, Colleen McEwan, Margo Boyce and Jessica Xavier who will be joining the alliance with One Billion Rising and V-Day for the March on Healing and Renewal tomorrow morning. The conversations are being created through these experiences allowing silences…

This YouTube video of the past week of sexual violence advocacy at the Haiti Carnival in Gonaives. There, we presented a “Leve Jistis” (Lift Justice) Mardi Gras float that put a national  spotlight on sexual violence prevention and women’s and girls’ rights, and invited men to engage as leaders in this fight. The float and…

Women, men and children marched to the presidential palace where they ROSE for Justice

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH By: Monique Wilson HILDEGARDE AWARDS March 8, 2014 Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. It is an incredible honour to be standing here with all of you today, and I am so privileged to be in the company of amazing women and men who are changing…

  As International Women’s Day, 8 March, begins, we are excited to share this special note from our ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE Global Coordinators and highlights from this year’s campaign. Risings are still happening throughout Canada and across the globe, please be sure to CHECK OUT our event map to find…

One Billion Rising for Justice London currently has a stall at the Women of the World Festival, which kicked off today, the 7th of March and will continue until the 9th of March, at the Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank. Volunteers are there to talk about One Billion Rising…

Read the original article and view more photos at Rappler online HERE PEASANT WOMEN RISING. Theater actress and One Billion Rising Global Coordinator Monique Wilson dances with the peasant women of Hacienda Luisita to call for genuine land reform. All photos by Dax Simbol/Rappler MANILA, Philippines – World-famous stage actress…

We would like to say a huge, collective thank you to activists and groups around the world, for the incredible global risings that took place on and around 14 February 2014, and for the risings taking place throughout Canada and the world tomorrow on International Women’s Day. We thank everyone…

In Beirut, +20 women rose boldly to dance in unity w/ their sisters around the world defying injustice against women. My writing is a small offering to give political voice to the extra-ordinary attempt at trans-national and cultural and racial and class and gender solidarity. It is to give a…

One Billion Rising activities continue with a production of The Vagina Monologues preformed by women with disabilities in the Museum of Contemporary Arts.