The situation in Syria is dire with 100,000 dead, over 2 million having fled the country (half of them children), and 4.25 million internally displaced. V-Day calls on you, our community, to rise and make our voices heard against military intervention, as such an action would simply bring about more violence and…

Yanar Mohammed, President and co-founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), released this statement and urgent call to action in response to the thousands of Iraqi children born with serious birth defects caused by the humanitarian crisis created by the US military when they withdrew, and is…

We are writing to bring to your attention the case of a poor 16-year-old Afghan girl named Shakila, who was raped and murdered on 22 January 2012 by Wahidi Behishti, a warlord member of the provincial council of Bamian province. We feel strongly that Wahidi Behishti should be prosecuted for…

I am not you. I am not Trayvon Martin. But as a woman there are things I do know and things that I have experienced that bring us into the same story, the same struggle.

Today, V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, and the One Billion Rising campaign announced the launch of ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE, which will focus on the issue of justice for all survivors of gender violence, and ending the rampant impunity that prevails globally.

As part of the 8 July launch of the new ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE campaign, V-Day is debuting a new short film called “Rising,” by South African filmmaker Tony Stroebel (“One Billion Rising,” “The Man Prayer,” “Break The Chain”). The film features global event footage from One Billion Rising…

We want to send a HUGE thank you to everyone who seized the moment, contacted their representatives, and ROSE for VAWA! The inclusive, bi-partisan Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act passed today and it would not have been possible without YOUR support, outrage, emails, flash mobs, tweets, posts,…

Was your Valentine’s Day boring, disappointing, lonely or just generally all about funding foreign wars? Are greeting cards, candy hearts and flowers just not your thing? Perhaps you’ll have a better time next year if you do what a whole lot of folks around the globe did yesterday: Rise up and fight…

by JULIE MCCARTHY Valentine’s Day saw women from around the globe take up the cause of ending sexual violence. From London to Los Angeles to Johannesburg, street exhibitions, dance performances and musical rallies were all held under the slogan “One Billion Rising.” In New Delhi, revulsion over the fatal gang rape…

The 57th Session of the United Nations Organization’s Commission on the Status of Women will provide a follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”. How far have…