Argentina SPOTLIGHT 2017: RISE TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKING On November 25, there marched next to Margarita Meira, a referent of the Mothers Victims of Trafficking (MVT) group in Buenos Aires. This organization was founded on the tremendous experience that Margarita lived with her daughter Graciela Susana Bekter. Twenty-five years ago,…

On August 9th, on an extremely warm evening, our dear sister Rada Boric arrived at Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport after a 17-hour long journey. Rada and I met three years ago at a One Billion Rising (OBR) event. She was kind, funny, brave, energetic and full of life; we became…

This blog was originally posted online at Geneeskunde voor het Volk (Medicine for the People) The One Billion Rising campaign generates from progressive women’s organizations from the south, who dance against violence against women. Globally, one in three women in her lifetime is a victim of violence. A third, one…

Insan Foundation Trust held a One Billion Rising event at the Quaid-i-Azam University on December 6th with the 2017 call for Solidarity to end the Exploitation of Women. Insan Foundation Trust (IFT), coordinator of OBR in Pakistan –  has been working since 1992 in the field of peace, democracy and rights…

READ the November edition of the One Billion Rising India Newsletter to see how India has RISEN thus far! Follow the local campaign on Facebook HERE!

16 NOVEMBER CHITWAN, NEPAL During a three day workshop on gender issues organised by Strii Shakti and conducted by Kamla Bhasin in Chitwan , Nepal, 31 activists from 21 organisations made plans for OBR 2017 in their areas. They made some posters and slogans. Vibrant OBR activities against Vawg and…

In commemoration of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, on 29 November Gabriela NY hosted an event including an educational discussion about the exploitation of Filipina/o migrants and the Labor Export Policy (LEP) in the Philippines. In light of the recent victory that halted NBC’s proposed sitcom “Mail Order Family”,…

  Violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence – yet the reality is that too often, it is covered up or tacitly…

November 25,2016 Gabriela lawmaker Arlene Brosas: “Women face landlessness, dispossession of their agricultural and ancestral lands due to local and foreign interest, eviction from their homes, lack of decent job and wages, and lack of appropriate and quality social services and public infrastructure. Women also remain the target of different…

Dear V-Friends & Risers, 2016 was a revolutionary, evolutionary year for V-Day, One Billion Rising and City of Joy. Your solidarity and support made it possible! As our work unfolded against a backdrop of violence, inequity, and patriarchy across the globe, the year was another poignant chapter in the evolution…