The original article can be read online at Pinoy Weekly HERE  One Billion Rising for Justice | A resounding women’s call for justice by Pinoy Weekly Staff Upping the ante in its call to action to end violence against women, this year’s One Billion Rising for Justice (OBR4J) in the Philippines…

Some of the highlights in the One Billion Rising (OBR) 2014 in the Philippines with a march and program at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. Led by One Billion Rising Global Director Monique Wilson and the women’s group Gabriela, joined by typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan survivors, mass organizations…

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!

One Billion Rising for Justice at Payatas dumpsite. Dancing with women scavengers and people from the community who live on and around the dumpsite. They are Rising! RISING AGAINST POVERTY. RISING AGAINST STATE NEGLECT. RISING AGAINST VIOLENCE. RISING FOR WOMEN TO HAVE HUMANE AND DIGNIFIED WORK.

Comfort women of the Philippines rising for justice outside the Japanese embassy. Their justice demands: Public apology Just compensation Historical inclusion No more wars of aggression that will create a new generation of comfort women.

Watch the wonderful interview in full HERE: One Billion Rising Global Director Monique Wilson was interviewed by Karen Davila on ANC’s “Headstart” morning news.  Monique discusses the structure of One Billion Rising, a self-directed grassroots movement, how we measure success/change/impact and an in-depth look at the risings in the Philippines. From ANC:…

The Association for the Rights of Children in Southeast Asia (ARCSEA) and the Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns conducted a RISING event on February 7 at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Laboratory High School. The RISING was joined in by around 700 high school students together with their teachers…

Read the original article on Bulatlat.com HERE “Majority of Filipino women have no food, no sustainable jobs, no affordable health care, education, housing and other social services. Women are poorer and hungrier under the administration of President Aquino.” – Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luz Ilagan   MANILA — Women’s groups announced…

One Billion Rising of Migrant Workers in Hong Kong from Lauren Sevilla Faustino on Vimeo. Women migrant domestic workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand and Bangladesh joined by foreign and local supporters held an amazing One Billion Rising (OBR) for Justice in Hong Kong event at Victoria Park in…

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…