ONE IN THREE WOMEN ON THE PLANET WILL BE RAPED OR BEATEN IN HER LIFETIME. THAT IS ONE BILLION WOMEN. IN 2013, ONE BILLION WOMEN AND MEN SHOOK THE EARTH THROUGH DANCE TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS. THIS YEAR, ON 14 FEBRUARY 2014 WE ARE CALLING ON WOMEN…

Nicoletta Billi has been working in cinema as a PUBLICIST on an international level for many years. After working (from 1980 to 1984) for Gaumont Press Office in Italy, she worked as a free-lance publicist for HENRY IV by Marco Bellocchio, Louis Malle, James Ivory, Theo Angelopoulos, Wim Wenders and…

The Huffington Post | By Dominique Mosbergen About one in three women worldwide experience sexual or physical violence at least once in their lives, according to a World Health Organization report released Thursday. Put together by the WHO in partnership with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the South…

Organizing globally to combat gender violence is an amazing, hard, flawed and sometimes impossible effort. Our movement is one that is based on deep respect for our sisters across class, race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, ability and other markers of identity. In my phone call with Lauren Chief Elk…

February 20, 2013   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Susan Celia Swan / V-Day media(@)vday.org; 917.865.6603 (c) V-Day’s ONE BILLION RISING is Biggest Global Action Ever To End Violence Against Women and Girls Campaign Spread Across the Planet on 14 February 2013, Tens of Thousands of Events Held in 207 Countries…

March 08, 2013 Rise Against Impunity Prosecutor Bensouda and Playwright/V-Day Founder Eve Ensler mark International Women’s Day. On 14 February 2013, one billion people rose in 207 countries to dance and strike and say no to sexual violence. One Billion Rising was an expression of an urgent and deep desire of women…

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…