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OBR Eswatini – January Youth Rising event

Published: 7 January 2025 > Eswatini

OBR Eswatini – Youth Rising event on January 10th Summer Camp Sukuma will be kicking off the 2025 #1BillionRising #Eswatini campaign. Don’t miss their thrilling artistic performance on Friday 10th January at the arther club in Mbabane at 6pm. Empowering youth through art to raise the vibration for peace and…

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OBR 2025 posters are pouring in for global February events

Published: 7 January 2025

Here are some of the posters coming in from all over the world: Byron Bay, Australia Source: V-Day Byron Bay (FB) Linz, Austria Cameroon Berlin, Germany Coburg, Germany Magdeburg, Germany Los Angeles, California, USA Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA

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KATHMANDU RISING!

Published: 3 January 2025 > Nepal

Source: LOOM (FB) Nepal will be holding its first major Rising event in Kathmandu on January 11, 2025. Abha is one of the invited guest speakers. Here are their posters and details: Join the Movement!  We are thrilled to invite you to the One Billion Rising Campaign: “Rising Together Beyond…

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Giving is an Act of Solidarity

Published: 18 December 2024

Dearest friends, activists & supporters, Many of you have asked how you can give a gift that has impact this season. As an activist movement to end violence against women, gender expansive people, and the Earth, V-Day’s work is global and grassroots. Led by extraordinary activists in communities around the…

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OBR Croatia marks International Migrants Day

Published: 16 December 2024 > Croatia

“One Billion Rising Croatia and Women’s Film Festival joined the cultural centre Ribnjak to mark International Migrants Day. The program included a screening of the documentary “The Taste of Home” (Okus Doma) and a panel discussion “Are we racists?” The film follows a group of migrant asylum seekers (from Syria,…

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JAPAN CONTINUES ITS LAUNCH OF OBR 2025

Published: 9 December 2024 > Japan

Source: One Billion Rising Japan (FB) JAPAN CONTINUES TO LAUNCH OBR 2025 DURING 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM Shared by Chikako Hama (OBR Japan coordinator) GEM (NPO Promoting Equal Participation Minato) Organized Human Rights Week Event. Touching on the roots of violence such as assumptions, discrimination, and prejudice, we lectured on…

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ESWATINI RISING AGAINST UNSAFE ABORTIONS

Published: 9 December 2024 > Eswatini

ESWATINI RISING AGAINST UNSAFE ABORTIONS AND CONTROL OF WOMENS’ BODIES Shared by Colani Hlatjwako (OBR Eswatini coordinator/ OBR Africa regional coordinator) “Our bodies, our rights, our voices – we rise in solidarity against unsafe abortion, against the control of women’s bodies, and against violence. It is time to take a…

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BERLIN LAUNCHES OBR 2025 WITH RISING ACTION

Published: 9 December 2024 > Germany

Source: One Billion Rising Berlin (FB) Together against violence! Today and every other day of the year. On 25.11.24 we set a powerful sign in front of the House of Deputies. Together, we raised our voices against violence against women and girls – loud, visible and unseen. Together we are…

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YOUTH RISING – INNABUYOG GABRIELA YOUTH LAUNCH OBR 2025

Published: 9 December 2024 > Philippines

Source: Innabuyog Gabriela Youth UP Baguio Innabuyog Gabriela Youth UP Baguio (IGY-UPB) leads the OBR launch last “Salakniban 2024. One Billion Rising (OBR), is a global campaign that heeds the call of ending all forms of violence against women, based on a UN statistic that 1 in 3 women worldwide…

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BOLOGNA, ITALY RISING

Published: 9 December 2024 > Italy

Source: One Billion Rising Italia (FB) OBR Bologna Italy coordinator Rachelle Hangsleben, leads the One Billion Rising flashmob dance to launch OBR 2025.

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