Zimbabwe had its first pre-rising activity on February 5, 2014 in partnership with the Literary Arts & Music Enterprise( FLAME). The discussion and story circle was attended by a vibrant group of female artists ,musicians, lyricists, filmmakers , directors,  poets and  activists at the Book Café in Harare. A brief insight…

“Our daughters, our sisters, our wives, our mothers, our grandmothers have every single right to expect to be free from violence and sexual abuse. No matter what she’s wearing, no matter whether she’s in a bar, in a dormitory, in the back seat of a car, on a street, drunk…

The song is a call for government to review this law. The words to the song are a plea for the killing to stop. Sigcaweni is a village situated next to the Mkhaya Game Reserve in the Lubombo Province of Swaziland. The game reserve Fence bisects the community and its…

V-Activists in Kosovo shared this wonderful clip that started airing today, Feb 7, on the national TV station encouraging citizens across the country to RISE for Justice!

    Read the interview and learn more about Empress-Jamaica HERE One billion women rising…transmits deep and resonant waves throughout my entire body.  Now more than ever, the Divine Feminine is awakening across the planet.  Why?  It is from Her that one is conceived, carried and [re]birthed.  She represents the…

One Billion Rising for Justice in Calatagan, Batangas – Rising against mining that is affecting communities like these who will end up getting displaced, militarized, and who will loose their homes and their livelihood by the mountains and the sea – and where women and girls will bear the heaviest…

            Women from the United Kingdom, and the moving forces behind OBR for Justice London, share why they are rising for justice at the One Billion Rising for Justice London press conference at the House of Parliament. SKIN- an artist Barrister/ Baroness Helena Kennedy MP…

A campaign video by One Billion Rising for Justice Indonesia 2014 to show support to victims of violence against women. A campaign video by One Billion Rising for Justice Indonesia 2014 to demand an end to violence against women.

Original article available here from CENTER FOR WOMEN’S RESEARCH February 6, 2014- They stomped their feet, twisted their bodies, and raised their pointfinger up to the sky, giving a message of one voice rising for justice. Hundreds of young women and men gathered in a morning of cultural performances to demand…

February 5, 2014-  Almost a year ago last February 14, 2013, thousands of women from all over the Philippines danced and rose in protest to highlight violence against women. Issues ranged from gender-based violence to state and structural violence that rendered women and their families poor and oppressed. Last year’s rising…