Eve Ensler's One Billion Rising campaign to end violence against women is all set to be launched on February 14.
Days before the date that Ensler, activist and author of
The Vagina Monologues,
designated the "day to rise", she tells
The Guardian: I've never seen anything like
it in my lifetime. It is something that has gone across class, social group and religion.
One in three women around the world are subject to violence at some
point in their life, a statistic that prompted Ensler, who wrote the
Monologues in 1996, to set up One Billion Rising.
Local protests range from the first ever flashmob in Mogadishu, Somalia, to the town square in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute and encompass Maori women in New Zealand and an estimated 25m protesters in Bangladesh.
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