One Billion Rising: 'It's like a feminist tsunami'
January 29, 2013 11:56
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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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.
Read the full story here
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