The following report was provided by OBR activists from Karachi, Pakistan: “An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some ingested injustice, some cruelty,…

The following photos and update were sent in by OBR Coordinator Rada Boric: Cyprus Women’s Lobby dedicated OBR to domestic workers: Rise for Revolution with Domestic Workers in Cyprus (Nicosia)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Susan Celia Swan/Colleen Carroll media(a)vday.org +1 (917) 865-6603   ONE BILLION RISING 2016: THE REVOLUTION ESCALATES Using Dance as a Form of Protest, OBR Activists Call for Revolution & System Change to End Violence Against Women & Girls In the Streets & Across Social Media Rising Events…

My sisters and brothers across this aching gorgeous earth, I write you with the fullest heart– at once exploding and melting. The images of millions of faces and bodies dancing, reaching, bending, ignited with an energy that is sacred and militant, profound and playful, radical and resistant. In you, I see…

The following report was provided by One Billion Rising Swaziland Coordinator Colani Hlajwako:  Our Rising Started with a march in manzini city center, to a Mavuso exhibition center where there was a revolutionary conversations/dialogue, then later a Revolutionary youth dancing competition. This year, thousands braved the extreme heat and attended…

Another incredible sold-out rising from Bay Area Rising. Our fifth. With huge energy and heart, activism and art. Inspiring, healing, challenging, and celebrating. In downtown Oakland, CA Saturday February 13. We have always taken seriously One Billion Rising’s call to love, call to celebrate, call to drum and dance for the new…

EKTA is a part of the One Billion Rising since 2013 and is involved in sensitizing the youth and the general public to end Violence against women and girls. This year the Revolution escalates for the fourth year with a series of planning meetings inviting all the NGOs, Academic Institutions,…

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We celebrated One Billion Rising today in our education center in Kabul, Afghanistan. A large number of students with their family members participated. The number was so high that we had to seat many inside the classrooms. The lawn outside was not enough. All the girls were very enthusiastic and…