WATCH this newest 2016 video from Rising events in Frosinone and other cities near Rome. Over 100 cities in Italy rose in 2016!

Just in from OBR in Taiwan, an OBR anti-violence commercial and public service announcement that combines all different public and private sectors and people of all ages in joining the OBR campaign.

As a grassroots activist movement to end violence against women and girls, we have long recognized that in order to end violence against women and girls, we must change the systems that perpetuate violence – change of mindsets, change of structures that keep violence in place. Change in consciousness, awareness…

“Bodies of Revolution: Women Rise Against the Violence of Police, States & Empire” will air on Link TV starting Tues, 19 July and several dates thereafter. The broadcast event will feature excerpts from the live panels convened last December by One Billion Rising, the The African American Policy Forum, and the…

THE LAST FOUR YEARS: The One Billion Rising movement and the local Rising campaigns first began in 2013, with the fierce struggle against sexual and physical violence – taking on the advocacy against rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation and sex trafficking that V-Day campaigns over 18 years have been…

The following messages of solidarity were delivered at the recent “OBR Justice for Domestic Workers” event in London on 19 June, International Domestic Workers Day alongside a poem read by Naoni Mukromin:    MESSAGE BY TAROJ TOPPO (Chairperson of Justice for Domestic Workers UK – from India)  We gather today to celebrate…

A Message from our One Billion Rising Global Coordinator KHUSHI KABIR, on the recent attacks in Dhaka: “Today was a hard day. After last night watching on TV, catching up on facebook, trying to find what happened, this morning after the ‘operation’ to rescue the hostages from the cafe in Gulshan,…

Yanar Mohammed is the founder of Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), an organization fighting to stop atrocities against women and advocate for women’s social, political and economic rights, and a V-Day/ One Billion Rising activist. She shared the following message about the recent bombing in Baghdad: “There are no words…

The following testimony/poem was delivered by Noani – a domestic worker from Indonesia and a member of Justice for Domestic Workers UK – at the recent OBRJustice for Domestic Workers event in London last week, on 19 June, International Domestic Workers Day:  I don’t want to remember in which year it…

Campaigners from Unite, the UK’s biggest union, Justice for Domestic Workers (J4DW) and One Billion Rising UK gathered at Old Palace Yard, Westminster last Sunday 19 June to celebrate International Domestic Workers Day with a renewed call on the UK government to end tied visas for domestic workers. Tied visas,…