United Nations to Observe One Billion Rising at UN Headquarters

The United Nations will observe one billion rising at its office in New York City, announces one billion rising in a press release.

V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, announces the final escalation of its year-long ONE BILLION RISING campaign.  Today, 14 February, women and men in 203 countries will come together in the largest day of mass action ever to stop violence against women and girls, to express their outrage, and to strike, dance and RISE to support an end to violence against women once and for all.

United Nations to Observe One Billion Rising at UN Headquarters

The United Nations will observe one billion rising at its office in New York City, announces one billion rising in a press release.

V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, announces the final escalation of its year-long ONE BILLION RISING campaign.  Today, 14 February, women and men in 203 countries will come together in the largest day of mass action ever to stop violence against women and girls, to express their outrage, and to strike, dance and RISE to support an end to violence against women once and for all.

Millions Continue to be Raped and Tortured: As The World Rise on to End Domestic Violence

Eve Ensler

 

Eve Ensler, founder of V-DAY, a global movement to end violence against women and girls told journalists how women are preparing to take actions to end violence across the planet, making reference to GAMCOTRAP, a women's right NGO based in The Gambia, who is rising because FGM affects girls and women

“So in Gambia, for example, I know (GAMCOTRAP) an amazing group of organizers are working to stop female genital mutilation and fighting for the laws and fighting for the support of communities because that’s the work they are doing” she said.

On the issue how economic crises affects women she said the movement to end violence against women and the movement fighting for wage increases are completely integrated movements, “nd I think that’s happening in a lot of places where people are saying, we can’t end violence against women unless we look at the economy and how we are treating 99% of the people, and the fact that 99% of the people are living in stress and difficulty”

'FGM should Not be practice on children in the Name of Islam'Dr Isatou Touray

Dr Touray speaking at the event

 

As The World celebrates International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, GAMCOTRAP believed it should not be tolerated for any reason

The girl's child body should be preserving and protected from all harmful traditional practices and FGM should not be practice in the name of Islam says Dr Isatou Touray, executive director of GAMCOTRAP, a right base NGO for women working in the area of women's health in Gambia.

'I have realised that my voice is my power'

Amie Bojang-Sissoho Amie Bojang-Sissoho, an anti-FGM activist hassaid she has realised that her voice is herpower. "I just found myself getting more involved without fear or regrets" she told The Daily New's Binta A Bah in an exclusive interview.

Gambians Rising on International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM

Gamcotrap's Executive Director

This year V- Day is supporting GAMCOTRAP to reach out to Community and Opinion leaders in the Kanifing Municipality on February 6th. This is part of the worldwide movement led by Eve Ensler to say No to Violence Against Women and to bring attention to the one billion women who suffer different forms of violence. Zero Tolerance this year will be a prelude to V-Day on the 14th February 2013 when One Billion women and men will be rising as survivors of violence who have taken the courage to say No to Violence Against Women.

'I'm A Free Woman Now' Says Isatou

 

In patriarch Gambia where women are traditionally viewed as an inferior sex always domestic violence perpetrator go free because of the dispaly of their socalled good manners in public.

Binta A Bah looks back at the story of Isatou who was 19 when she submitted to a forced marriage and how she manage to divorced from that husband. Daily News is not using the really name of the victim as requested and therefore is here using Isatou instead.

Back in January last year, Daily New's women's weekly column “Musulutaa”ran a story title 'from prison Isatou enters a battlefield' in that publication Isatou describe her story as 'tragic' because it's very common for young abused women to tolerate and keep quite over such abuses.