NEW SERIES LAUNCHES: "Building to One Billion Rising REVOLUTION"

1 in 3 women across the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. That's ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. Every February, we rise – in hundreds of countries across the world – to show our local communities and the world what one billion looks like and shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors most often face. We rise through dance to express joy and community and celebrate the fact that we have not been defeated by this violence. We rise to show we are determined to create a new kind of consciousness – one where violence will be resisted until it is unthinkable.

This year we are rising for Revolution. We are initiating a new series, "Building to One Billion Rising Revolution" where we will be sharing stories of extraordinary activists who embody the creative radical shift in consciousness required to bring about CHANGE.

Grassroots Activists who fight for justice and liberation with passion and joy.

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The series will appear in The Huffington Post

and on OneBillionRising.org. Kicking it off is long-time V-Day and One Billion Rising activist Agnes Pareyio, founder of Tasaru Ntomonok Initiative and the V-Day Safe House for the Girls.

27% Is Too Many, But It's Also The Sign Of A Revolution
By Agnes Pareyio

I was fourteen years old when my mother and grandmother announced that I was going to have my clitoris, my labia majora, and my labia minora cut out. They said if I resisted, I would be a coward. In my culture, the worst thing you can ever be called is a coward. What they did to me next caused me real harm, but it also gave me the cause of my life.

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