Spotlight Blog Series on Women in Prison & Detention V-Day’s Spotlight on Women in Prison, Detention Centers, and Formerly Incarcerated Women has been created in collaboration with Kathy Boudin and Cheryl Wilkins and formerly incarcerated women and activists working on…
Photo: Paula Allen for V-Day We’ve just received the sad news that Duncan Bomba Omwani Papa Omundu Umundu passed away on 25 January. All of us at V-Day, One Billion Rising, and City of Joy mourn the loss of our dear friend…
https://www.onebillionrising.org/44064/celebrating-v-man-duncan-bomba-omwani-papa-omundu-umundu/
Spotlight Blog Series on Women in Prison & Detention V-Day’s Spotlight on Women in Prison, Detention Centers, and Formerly Incarcerated Women has been created in collaboration with Kathy Boudin and Cheryl Wilkins and formerly incarcerated women and activists working on…
As we enter the holiday season, abundance abounds. Women’s leadership is celebrated in the news and is more necessary than ever. Over 1100 graduates of the City of Joy are leading in their communities, shaping the future of Congo with…
Over 20 years of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against all women and girls (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender based violence), we have seen communities come together to centralize…
https://www.onebillionrising.org/43326/until-the-violence-stops/
Sangat Core Group Members with participants of 22nd Sangat Month Long Course at the South Asia launch of OBR 2018 in Nepal The Launch Kathmandu, Nepal On 2 September, 2017 Nepali civil society and Sangat organized the…
(Image by Neil Cronin, COPE, Galway, Ireland) As highlighted by the V-Day global movement, an estimated one in three women will experience sexual or physical abuse in their lifetime across the globe (World Health Organization, 2013). These figures are damning,…
The focus of the Uganda national OBR campaign was Trafficking of women and girls, Sexual exploitation and gender based violence. Here in Uganda, despite all government efforts to combat violence and exploitation of all forms against women, like the…
One Billion Rising Togo 2017 is focusing on the different forms of violence against women in Togo, legal process and how to address them in solidarity and with the involvement of men. We have chosen this theme, which is to provide the necessary…
INDONESIA: Led by Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, the former migrant domestic worker from Indonesia who was tortured by her Hong Kong employers and who won her case – migrant workers in Indonesia and their families held a Migrant Workers Rising for International…
