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On 22 – 24 April, over 30 One Billion Rising global coordinators
gathered in Rome for a summit to reflect and discuss the One Billion Rising for Justice 2014 campaign, to share ideas and perspectives, and to envision One Billion Rising 2015.
On 14 February 2013, ONE BILLION RISING saw women and men from all over the world dance and rise in protest to highlight violence against women. Issues focused on gender-based violence. This year, ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE escalated the demand to end violence against women and girls by focusing on ending impunity and connecting social justice issues with violence against women.
Apart from sustaining the call to Rise against Violence and elevating the call for justice for women and girls – the justice calls escalated to include state and structural violence that render women and their families poor and oppressed – bringing in the intersectional issues of labor and trafficking, forced migration, domestic work, economic violence and exploitation, indigenous women’s rights, plunder of the land and environment, women in prisons, racial violence, among many other intersectional issues that cause and perpetuate violence against women.
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“We honor and mourn the loss of the great Maya Angelou who broke the silence on rape and violence with thunderous poetry and brave heart. She was the woman who taught us women to Rise!”
Eve Ensler, Founder, V-Day and One Billion Rising
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V-Day Congo Director/Director of City of Joy Christine Schuler Deschryver updates us about the fifth graduating class of City of Joy:
On 5 May 2014, we ended our 5th training session with an extraordinary ceremony, which included members of Panzi Foundation DRC and the Chairman of the board, Dr. Denis Mukwege. Partners from the grassroots associates were also present, along with past graduates who came to participate in their sisters’ victory and healing from their traumas.
Our 5th session graduates organized the ceremony themselves with testimonies regarding their radical change in their lifestyle. They testified that they have begun to boldly do things which they could previously never have thought of doing. A woman from the Banyamulenge tribe explained fearlessly that she arrived at City of Joy with a broken, sullied health filled with hatred inherited from the violence she survived in her village. She could not sleep and completely isolated herself for years, she added. At City of Joy, she learned what LOVE and SHARING are. These are the only easy solutions she has owned to release her trauma and leave the abyss, she shouted. Thanks to therapeutic techniques she was taught, she can sleep deeply, love and open herself to others.
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On 13 May, Christine Schuler Deschryver and Eve Ensler sat down for a special RISE4JUSTICE conversation at ABC Carpet & Home in NYC.
The evening offered activists in the NYC area, and many more watching online throughout the world, the opportunity to hear about the situation facing women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and what the City of Joy and V-World Farm are doing to end the violence.
“What keeps me going is seeing all of these girls changing and seeing this community we created where love lives” – Christine Schuler Deschryver
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The Vagina Monologues, has returned in a new form for the first New York City revival! Los Monólogos de la Vagina will be performed by a revolving cast including Miriam Colón, Kate del Castillo and Angélica Vale appearing 6 May through 11 May, with del Castillo, Vale and her mother, Angélica María, performing from 14 May through 1 June. Tony Award nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega will join the Off-Broadway cast of Los Monólogos de la Vagina for a limited, three-week engagement in June. Rubin-Vega will be joined by Maria Cellario (The Royal Family) and Flor de Liz Perez (The House that will not Stand) for the 3 June to 22 June engagement. The production is directed by Jaime Matarredona and produced by Morris Gilbert and Federico González Compeán. A portion of each ticket sold will go directly to benefit V-Day.
TICKETS are on sale now and available through www.telecharge.com
LEARN more at the official site www.monologosvagina.com
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Tomorrow is Mother’s Day (in the U.S and select other countries around the world) and in honor of mothers everywhere, and in solidarity with the mothers of the kidnapped girls in Nigeria, we are calling on you to join us and MAKE A RESOUNDING NOISE wherever you are as an act of global solidarity.
Amy Oyekunle, Executive Director of Kudirat Initiative for Democracy in Lagos and One Billion Rising Global Coordinator for Nigeria, along with local students created this important video calling for global action to #BringBackOurGirls
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The Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) is a non-governmental organization that works to strengthen organizations and create initiatives dedicated to the advancement of girls and women. Amy is a gender and development consultant, feminist researcher and facilitator with experience of working with community based organizations in Africa. She has extensive experience in designing and implementing programmes on violence against women and girls and women in political participation. Amy is a long-time V-Day activist who brought The Vagina Monologues to Lagos starting in 2006. She joined 36 V-Day activists in Kenya in 2012 for the V-Day Africa Rising Summit at which lasting bonds and friendships were made, all of whom are joining Amy as united women and men in this campaign.
JOIN US and make a RESOUNDING RISING NOISE and let the world leaders know that we are not going anywhere, that we will not stop until they #BringBackOurGirls!
LEARN more about Amy’s work and the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy >
READ “We Are Not Going Anywhere” by One Billion Rising for Justice Global Coordinator (Southern Africa) Barbara Mhangami-Ruwende >
BE INSPIRED: V-Girls SA member Busi Mkhumbuzi writes a passionate piece on #BringBackOurGirls and shares her #headwrap campaign she has started in solidarity. In addition, Busi who is a student at the University of Cape Town, together with numerous organizations has mobilized Cape Town to Rise tomorrow in front of Parliament and present the government with a memorandum that demands that South African government take action to #bringbackourgirls.
IN SOLIDARITY: In a joint statement today, the Gambian Child Protection Alliance, the Nigerian Ambassador to Gambia and Executive Director Of GAMCOTRAP Dr. Isatou Touray said “[Boko Haram’s] action transcends the borders of Nigeria to other neighboring countries and gives it a transnational dimension. This should be a cause of concern for all of our countries. No country should remain complacent given the current trends of abuses meted on girls in the name of religion. This act of violence against women, is misogyny, satanic and outright evil against women, and is certainly not Islamic.”
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Two weeks ago, 234 teenage girls were kidnapped in the Nigerian city of Bornu while taking their exams. It is assumed that the girls were taken by Boko Haram, a local Islamic extremist group whose name means “western education is forbidden.”
It is feared that the girls have been sold into marriage to the militants and some have been moved to nearby countries of Cameroon and Chad. The global movement of activists behind #BringBackOurGirls and countless One Billion Rising organizers and participants have been working tirelessly to bring the plight of the girls to the world’s attention.
One Billion Rising for Justice Global Coordinator (Southern Africa) Barbara Mhangami-Ruwende shares what some activists are doing around the world, and calls on all of us to:
“Make a RESOUNDING RISING NOISE this Sunday, 11 May, and let the world leaders know that we are not going anywhere, that we will not stop until they #BringBackOurGirls!”
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This Sunday, women and men, boys and girls in the U.S. and other countries around the world will celebrate Mother’s Day. Please consider giving a V-Gift to support the global movement to end violence against women and girls on behalf of your mother, friends, and loved ones.
We have two specially designed 2014 Mother’s Day V-Cards available to choose from. With your donation V-Day will send the electronic card of your choice letting your loved one know of their unique gift in their honor.
CLICK HERE to give this V-Gift >
To send a V-Card on the donate page, check the box next to “Donate on behalf of a loved one?” labeled “Yes, I would like to send a V-Day e-card,” choose the design you would like to send, and fill in the rest of the information to finish designing your gift.
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On Tuesday, 13 May, join V-Day Congo Director/Director of City of Joy Christine Schuler Deschryver and Eve Ensler for a special RISE4JUSTICE event and reception at ABC Carpet & Home in NYC.
The conversation will be a unique opportunity to hear directly from Christine about the situation facing women and girls in Congo, and the work being done on the ground to end the violence.
In celebration of Mother’s Day, we are pleased to offer you, our activists, a special Mother’s Day discount code good for 50% off the ticket price.
Simply go to vday.org/csd and enter the code NYCOBR4J when you check out.
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(Photo : Twitter/WomenGirlsLead)
Dear One Billion Rising and V-Day Activists,
Two weeks ago, 234 teenage girls were kidnapped in the Nigerian city of Bornu while taking their exams. It is assumed that the girls were taken by Boko Haram, a local Islamic extremist group whose name means “western education is forbidden.” It is feared that the girls have been sold into marriage to the militants and some have been moved to nearby countries of Cameroon and Chad. Long-time V-Day activist and One Billion Rising coordinator in Nigeria, Amy Oyekunle, writes to us about the horrific situation there – where conflicting information about the girls’ whereabouts and their current status and situation has left parents and loved ones devastated. We are asking you, our fellow One Billion Rising and V-Day activists to put the girls in your thoughts, prayers, and meditations, as well as those of the Nigerian women, men, and activists who have been taking and continue to take to the streets until the girls are brought back to their families safely.
We are calling on all of our One Billion Rising and V-Day activists to stand and rise for justice with our sisters in Nigeria, and to call for global solidarity for Nigeria.
Please do the following:
1. SIGN THE PETITION
http://www.change.org/petitions/over-200-girls-are-missing-in-nigeria-so-why-doesn-t-anybody-care-234girls
2. 
#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS:
USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE SITUATION IN NIGERIA
The focus is to put massive pressure on the government, security forces, and the neighboring governments (of Chad and Cameroon) to spur them to action – specifically to #BringBackOurGirls. It is deplorable that this situation has been happening for quite some time now and hasn’t received the attention it needs to stop the killings, abductions, and constant insecurity plaguing women and girls in the North and the rest of Nigeria.
3. HOLD A SOLIDARITY DAY OF ACTION ON 5 MAY
The Nigerian government is currently focused on preparing for the World Economic Forum (WEF) taking place in Abuja/Lagos from 6 May – 10 May holding various meetings and activities. While the event was welcomed before the kidnappings happened, there is growing anger that the WEF has taken priority over the lives and welfare of over 200 Nigerian citizens. A huge rally is being planned in Lagos on Monday, 5 May to call for justice for the missing girls, and to use it as an opportunity to show that “Women and Girls Matter.”
WE ARE CALLING ON OUR ONE BILLION RISING NETWORKS ALL OVER THE WORLD TO STAND OUTSIDE THE NIGERIAN EMBASSIES IN YOUR COUNTRIES TO DEMAND JUSTICE AND TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH OUR SISTERS IN NIGERIA.
RISE FOR JUSTICE FOR OUR SISTERS IN NIGERIA!
RISE TO DEMAND THEIR RELEASE!