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V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sex slavery.

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Climate Change and Violence: We Must Listen

(0) Comments | Posted February 13, 2013 | 2:10 PM

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by Matt Petersen

I have a confession.

I am stuck in a bad relationship.

In fact, I think we are all stuck in a bad relationship.

And what are the hallmarks of a good relationship? Communication. Listening. Respect.

Well, we are not listening --...

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The Man Box and The Cult of Masculinity

(2) Comments | Posted February 11, 2013 | 8:25 AM

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Violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. To address and to end violence against women globally, we must consider the factors and circumstances that contribute to it, from the local to the planetary. That's why V-Day has collected a series of articles for One Billion...
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N. Jerin Arifa: Islamophobia Encourages Violence Against Women

(7) Comments | Posted February 11, 2013 | 8:15 AM

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Violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. To address and to end violence against women globally, we must consider the factors and circumstances that contribute to it, from the local to the planetary. That's why V-Day has collected a series of articles for One Billion...
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Sally Fisher: The Intersection of HIV/AIDS & Violence Against Women

(0) Comments | Posted February 10, 2013 | 5:22 PM

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By Sally Fisher, Director of NTERSECT: The HIV/Violence against Women & Girls Project


Women around the world have made huge strides, achieved political power, status, money, and celebrity. We make critical differences around conference tables, negotiating tables in the arts...

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Adam Hochschild: Fatal Convergence

(0) Comments | Posted February 8, 2013 | 6:50 PM

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Violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. To address and to end violence against women globally, we must consider the factors and circumstances that contribute to it, from the local to the planetary. That's why V-Day has collected a series of articles for One...
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A Reflection: A Dance, Prayer and Promise to Keep

(0) Comments | Posted February 8, 2013 | 12:08 PM

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Violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. To address and to end violence against women globally, we must consider the factors and circumstances that contribute to it, from the local to the planetary. That's why V-Day has collected a series of articles for...

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Our Biography Is Our Biology

(0) Comments | Posted February 4, 2013 | 12:52 PM

by Christiane Northrup, MD

This piece is part of V-Day's One Billion Rising article series.

One Billion Rising is a movement whose time has come! Both the method and the message of One Billion Rising are contagious and joyful. But there's no denial. No skirting the pain or the enormity...

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Violent Economic "Reforms" and the Growing Violence Against Women

(3) Comments | Posted January 3, 2013 | 10:49 AM

By Vandana Shiva

This is the first in the "One Billion Rising" article series. We asked Vandana Shiva to write a piece for the series and this is her piece. Written Dec. 29, 2012

The brave and courageous survivor of the Delhi gang rape has breathed her last.This blog...

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Nepal: Rising In The Himalayas

(0) Comments | Posted October 5, 2012 | 1:56 PM

Nepal Says Stop Violence Against Women

By Pamela Philipose

Kathmandu (Women's Feature Service) - Nepal is a country in transition. Whether it is the four lane highway that links Tribhuvan International Airport to the capital city of Kathmandu, or the innumerable new concrete constructions that...

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One Billion Rising

(1393) Comments | Posted September 24, 2012 | 1:01 PM

ONE BILLION RISING is a short film by Eve Ensler and South African filmmaker Tony Stroebel.

One in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. This powerful three minute film reminds us how violence against women appears worldwide in the every...

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