Jogja is rising! While preparing for One Billion Rising, Thursday night, we heard that Mount Kelud -200 km away from Jogja- was errupting. Ashes started to fall, and at dawn our city turned grey and gloomy. Online meeting was set up. Should we keep dancing while our sisters and brothers…

Thousands of high school students singing to the music while dancing, screaming “Babae” (woman), then singing the line “Ito na ang ating panahon” (“this is our time”) This is just one of many schools where they rose like this!

We are thrilled to announce that One Billion Rising Global Director Monique Wilson has been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Hildegarde Lifetime Achievement Award for her lifelong commitment to advocating women’s rights in theater, media and the performing arts. Also, the One Billion Rising campaign has been selected as one of…

President of the Croatian Republic Ivo Josipović joined again global campaign “Milijarda ustaje” (One Bilion Rising),called by the number of violated women in the world with the goal to show commitment and solidarity in struggle against violence and its devastating consequences. OBR in croatia was organised by women’s groups  (Centar za ženske studije iz Zagreba, CESI,…

One Billion Rising ISRAEL – Hashomer Hatzair | ריקוד המיליארד – השומר הצעיר

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Despite the extreme winter weather and enormous piles of snow everywhere, Hudson Valley Rising’s 2nd Annual One Billion Rising event at SUNY New Paltz was a success last Friday, February 14, with over 250 people in attendance – women, men, teenagers, children, SUNY students and staff, community activists, mothers and…

Read the original article in The New Indian Express HERE HYDERABAD Published: 15th February 2014 10:04 AM Last Updated: 15th February 2014 10:34 AM Can two women, separated by a generation, lead two different and purposeful lives under the same roof? What is it that makes the younger one defy…