One Billion Rising For Justice is a call to women, men, and youth around the world to
gather safely on 14 February 2014 outside places where they are entitled to justice –
court houses, police stations, government offices, school administration buildings, work
places, sites of environmental injustice, military courts, embassies, places of worship,
homes, or simply public gathering places where women deserve to feel safe but too often
do not.
The campaign is a recognition that we cannot end violence against women without looking
at the intersection of poverty, racism, war, the plunder of the environment, capitalism,
imperialism, and patriarchy. Impunity lives at the heart of these interlocking forces. It is
a call to survivors to dance across every country, break the silence, release their stories,
acknowledge the truth in solidarity and community, and bring on revolutionary justice.
Just like One Billion Rising in 2013, we want the world to see the power of global solidarity,
transcending borders, class, age, race, culture, and gender.
ENVISIONING JUSTICE
One Billion Rising For Justice was envisioned by
international Regional Coordinators at a gathering
in New York City in April 2013. The focus on justice
stems from the systematic and endemic global
impunity for perpetrators of violence against women
and girls that is occurring on local, national, and
international levels. A unanimous decision was made
to focus on justice as an escalation of our demand to
end violence against women and girls once and for all.
GLOBAL COORDINATORS
One Billion Rising Global Coordinators are activists
based around the world who are engaging their
communities, cities, countries, and regions to be a
part of One Billion Rising For Justice. Many of these
women and men coordinated efforts in 2013, and as
long-time activists and V-Day organizers they have
the skills, networks, and ability to help guide local
organizations, individuals, lawyers, unions, and
alliances with their participation in the campaign.
They will strategize, create, and promote One Billion
Rising For Justice all over the world.
GLOBAL COORDINATORS LOCATIONS
Balkans: Albania, Bosnia?& Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Former Yugoslavia •
Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua,?Panama • European Union?
• Germany • Italy • Mexico?• Pakistan • Philippines
• Somalia • Sudan • South America: Argentina,
Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru,
Venezuela • Southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho,
Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa,
Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe • South Asia:
Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives,
Nepal, Sri Lanka • United Kingdom • USA: Atlanta,
Los Angeles, New York, Santa Fe and San Francisco.
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