Every 14th of February, the ladies’s rights staff One Billion Rising phases dance protests to name for an finish to gender-based violence and display world unity for girls and women.
For many, the 14th of February is Valentine’s Day, the day of affection and romance. But for the ladies’s rights staff One Billion Rising, this is a day of motion.
One Billion Rising is understood for staging dance protests all over the world to lift consciousness about gender-based violence.
This yr in Rome, as a part of a sequence of occasions held within the Italian capital through the organisation, 20 dancers and 50 scholars from Dante Alighieri High School staged a flash mob at the Spanish Steps.
“Those who have suffered violence would like to erase their bodies,” mentioned Linda Foster, the inventive director for the development. “But through this joyful and powerful event, we say we must begin to listen to our bodies, as part of the solution.”
One Billion Rising coordinator Luisa Rizzitelli added: “Women today die more from the violence they suffer than from cancer or illness. Today we dance, we hear music and we get the youngsters involved to remember this has to be won, this is a battle we must win.”
One Billion Rising has its roots within the V-Day Movement of the overdue Nineties, and used to be based through Eve Ensler, writer of “The Vagina Monologues”.
The organisation invitations a thousand million ladies to upward thrust, dance, and fix international to call for an finish to this violence to turn collective power and world unity throughout all borders.
Since 2013, the collective has been assembly each and every 14th of February within the streets and squares of 190 nations all over the world to bop in combination to the notes of æBreak the Chain”. Participants can be informed the choreography on-line.
According to One Billion Risin’ and the UN Population Fund, violence in opposition to girls and women is among the maximum prevalent, fashionable and systematic human rights violations on the planet.
This form of violence is aware of no social, financial or nationwide obstacles. It is estimated that 35% of ladies have suffered violence one day of their lives. In some nations, this quantity is as prime as 70%.
