Overseas, many Filipina domestic maids are sexually abused and raped but they simply suffer in silence...they need the money, their families back home need the money. So they become sex-slaves in addition to being work-slaves...and they pray their rosaries and to the saints who cannot bail them out....

Here is a recent story of a Norwegian woman who was raped and she reported it to the police...and in public to the Associated Press But the irony is that, Dubai punished her because " it was committing adultery" - even if she was the "victim" of rape - she did NOT asked to have sex when she was raped!!!

Justice for women has a long way to go but the more we expose and report to the police and especially to the MEDIA, to the Associated Press or respectable news media, especially about rape, the more "awareness and clamor for justice" for women will get all over the world.

Other testimonies of raped women are also included in articles below. Read and imitate their bravery. Highlights and emphases are added for better reflection and meditation. Read especially the article on The Silence and the Shame of Sexual Violence in Church.

Join "1 Billion Rising" organization to help women who were raped and to stop violence against women. Read more below about "1 Billion Rising".

Let us form a political group for the LIBERATION of caregivers, Filipina maids and nannies who are being sexually abused all over the world. Let us draw courage from this Norwegian woman and 1 Billion Rising group of women.

Let us be FEARLESS and COURAGEOUS WOMEN united together for women caregivers' safety and especially for the just salary for Filipina domestic maids, nannies and caregivers all over the world .

From 1 Billion Rising

Be in discussion in your communities about what justice means to you in your context.

Speak your story out loud for the first time and be heard.

Prosecute governments responsible for violence against women and demand reparations and apologies.

Hold colleges accountable for not prosecuting rapists on campuses.

Demand more humane working conditions, and protest against corporate greed that keeps women in poverty and subject to economic violence.

Shame and blame religious institutions for childhood sexual abuse, or for being obstacles to women’s rights.

Read about the Catholic Church sex issues here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/

Learn about justice by studying the roots of patriarchy.

Focus on mining, militarization and trafficking, all of which instigate violence towards women.

Organize women’s courts and flash courts outside courtrooms….

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Our non-profit blog was inspired by a Filipina domestic from the Middle East who left her newborn baby – with placenta still attached – in the Bahrain Gulf Air airplane toilet - upon landing in Manila, read her story here http://filipina-nannies-caregivers.blogspot.ca/2013/05/this-blog-was-inspired-by-filipina.htm . Her despair and desperation inspired this blog to gather all possible stories in order to help, to inform and to empower all Filipina nannies, caregivers and maids -- to liberate themselves from abuses of all forms: physical, rape, verbal, exploitation, overtime working without pay.... Send us your stories. Stay anonymous - if you like. (No one can afford to deny this matter anymore). Write in Tagalog, or your dialect, or English, or French, or any language. ALL nannies, caregivers and domestic maids are welcome, send your stories to mangococonutmay1@gmail.com
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Dubai: Raped Norwegian goes public with Associated Press.

Norwegian woman fighting jail sentence in Dubai for reporting rape

Marte Deborah Dalelv, 24, from Norway, talks to the Associated Press reporter in Dubai on July 19, 2013, after she was sentenced 16 months in jail for having sex outside of marriage after she reported an alleged rape.
(Kamran Jebreili/AP)

AP/ July 21, 2013, 1:50 PM

Marte Deborah Dalelv: Norwegian woman's16-month sentence in Dubai after rape claim draws outrage

Marte Deborah Dalelv from Norway, 24, talks to the Associated Press reporter in Dubai on Friday, July 19, 2013, after she was sentenced 16 months in jail for having sex outside of marriage after she reported an alleged rape.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Norwegian woman sentenced to 16 months in jail in Dubai for having sex outside marriage after she reported an alleged rape said she decided to speak out in hopes of drawing attention to the risks of outsiders misunderstanding the Islamic-influenced legal codes in this cosmopolitan city.

The case has drawn outrage from rights groups and others in the West since the 24-year-old interior designer was sentenced Wednesday. It also highlights the increasingly frequent tensions between the United Arab Emirates' international atmosphere and its legal system, which is strongly influenced by Islamic traditions in a nation where foreign workers and visitors greatly outnumber locals.

"I have to spread the word. ... After my sentence we thought, 'How can it get worse?'" Marte Deborah Dalelv told The Associated Press in an interview Friday at a Norwegian aid compound in Dubai where she is preparing her appeal scheduled for early September.

Dalelv, who worked for an interior design firm in Qatar since 2011, claims she was sexually assaulted by a co-worker in March while she was attending a business meeting in Dubai.

She said she fled to the hotel lobby and asked for the police to be called. The hotel staff asked if she was sure she wanted to involve the police, Dalelv said.

"Of course I want to call the police," she said. "That is the natural reaction where I am from."

Dalelv said she was given a medical examination seeking evidence of the alleged rape and underwent a blood test for alcohol. Such tests are commonly given in the UAE for alleged assaults and in other cases. Alcohol is sold widely across Dubai, but public intoxication can bring charges.

The AP does not identity the names of alleged sexual assault victims, but Dalelv went public voluntarily to talk to media.

Dalelv was detained for four days after being accused of having sex outside marriage, which is outlawed in the UAE although the law is not actively enforced for tourists as well as hundreds of thousands of Westerners and others on resident visas.

She managed to reach her stepfather in Norway after being loaned a phone card by another woman in custody.

"My stepdad, he answered the phone, so I said, that I had been raped, I am in prison ... please call the embassy," she recounted.
"And then I went back and I ... just had a breakdown," she continued. "It was very emotional, to call my dad and tell him what happened."

Norwegian diplomats later secured her release and she has been allowed to remain at the Norwegian Seamen's Center in central Dubai. She said her alleged attacker received a 13-month sentence for out-of-wedlock sex and alcohol consumption.

Dubai authorities did not respond to calls for comment, but the case has brought strong criticism from Norwegian officials and activists.

"This verdict flies in the face of our notion of justice," Norway's foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, told the NTB news agency, calling it "highly problematic from a human rights perspective."

Previous cases in the UAE have raised similar questions, with alleged sexual assault victims facing charges for sex-related offenses. Other legal codes also have been criticized for being at odds with the Western-style openness promoted by Dubai.

On Thursday, Dubai police said they arrested a man who posted an Internet video of an Emirati beating a South Asian van driver after an apparent traffic altercation. Police said they took the action because images of a potential crime were "shared."

In London, a spokesman for the Emirates Center for Human Rights, a group monitoring UAE affairs, said the Dalelv case points out the need for the UAE to expand its legal protections for alleged rape victims.

"We urge authorities to reform the laws governing incidents of rape in the country," said Rori Donaghy, "to ensure women are protected against sexual violence and do not become the targets of prosecution when reporting crimes."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57594755/marte-deborah-dalelv-norwegian-womans16-month-sentence-in-dubai-after-rape-claim-draws-outrage/

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www.jihadwatch.org/2011/04/islamic-honor-killing-in-kentucky-muslim-slits-throats-of-his-three-children-rapes-his-wife-and-hits.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=icNTs30ZRvQ

news.nationalpost.com/2010/11/20/graphic-anatomy-of-a-stoning/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOIbgd5qcrg

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073181/Saudi-Arabia-authorities-behead-woman-sorcery.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWGA8i6scYY

www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/010-women-worth-less.htm

Honor Killings Grow in the West: Islam's Gruesome Gallery

atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/03/honor-killing-islams-gruesome-gallery.html

"Honor Killing" is Absolutely Islamic!

www.islam-watch.org/SyedKamranMirza/honor_killing.htm

Honor Killings of Muslim Women

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7Gf24osAo

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/norwegian-woman-wages-fight-against-dubai-jail-sentence-after-reporting-alleged-rape/article13327915/comments/

UAE pardons Norwegian woman jailed in Dubai after reporting rape

DUBAI | Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:24am EDT

(Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has pardoned a Norwegian woman who was sentenced to jail for illicit sex after she reported being raped by a colleague while on a visit to Dubai, the Norwegian foreign minister said on Monday.

Marte Deborah Dalelv, 24, had been awaiting an appeal hearing of her 16-month sentence handed down this month after a court in the Gulf Arab emirate found her guilty of having sex outside marriage, drinking and making false statements.

"I warmly welcome that Marte Dalelv was pardoned by the ruler of Dubai today. The fight for human rights for all continues," Norway's foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, said on his Twitter account.

Eide had told reporters Oslo believed the verdict was "completely unacceptable" and said it was contrary to human rights and the basic sense of justice.

Dalelv herself spoke of her relief and delight at the decision. "I am very very happy ... I don't know when I will get to go home, but I'll leave as soon as possible," she told Norwegian state broadcaster NRK. "I am free, finally."

News of the sentence had dominated the front pages in Norway and raised questions about the judicial system in the Gulf state, which attracts large numbers of expatriates and tourists with a Western lifestyle but has little-publicized conservative laws covering sex and alcohol.

Authorities from Dubai's public prosecutor's office had no immediate comment.

Dalelv, who has been staying at a Norwegian Christian center in Dubai pending the appeal, said a male colleague pulled her into his hotel room and raped her after she asked him to help her find her own room when they had a few drinks.

Dalelv said she had chosen to speak about her case in public to warn others of the risks involved in rape cases in the Gulf state.

In the United Arab Emirates, as in some other countries using Islamic law, a rape conviction can require either a confession or the testimony of four adult male witnesses.

(Reporting by Amena Bakr and Sami Aboudi in Dubai; Balazs Koranyi in Oslo Editing by Alison Williams)

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‘I Believe You’

UNITED STATES
Morung Express
Catherine Woodiwiss Sojourners

The Silence and the Shame of Sexual Violence in Church

Several years ago, Amee Paparella was an eager student at a state university in Ohio. A conservative Christian, she quickly signed up to join the campus ministry. What she found in the group surprised her.

“It was so misogynistic,” Paparella recalled. “My leaders perpetuated this hyper-masculinized idea of God as physically a man.”

Over the years, Paparella wrestled to reconcile this image of God with her own faith, often to the discomfort of her peers. But an incident of sexual abuse within the ministry proved the breaking point. When it was discovered that a young man had been abusing his female partner, also in the group, the campus minister and student leaders responded by encouraging the young woman to stand by her man and to pray with the other students for his healing.

Paparella was horrified. “I realized, they don’t want me to think. After that, I just didn’t see how faith and women’s empowerment could be reconciled.” From that point on, she said, “the women’s movement really became my new church.”

Several months ago, a young woman in Steubenville, Ohio, suffered a series of horrific, and horrifically public, violations.

After being raped by two classmates, her abuse continued as photos of the incident were spread throughout social networks and ultimately to the national media. Not only did she suffer violations of her body, of her dignity, and of her privacy, she later suffered skepticism and blame from victim-shamers both online and in her community, and had her identity broadcast on cable news.

As aggressive and hurtful commentary raced through the airwaves, few sought out faith leaders for their response. When members of clergy gathered in Steubenville for a prayer service, they urged those gathered to “bring unity to our community … and show we are a better place,” through “self-reflection and prayer,” but failed to directly condemn the rape as a crime. In fact, the purest public extension of grace towards the victim — the words “I believe you” — came not from a pastor, but a host on MSNBC.

What has changed, from Amee’s experience twenty years ago to Jane Doe’s earlier this year? In many respects, very little. Unfortunately, stories of abuse even within the faith community are rampant. The church — society’s moral heartbeat and compass for centuries — too often has been hopelessly irrelevant at best and damnably complicit at worst. Surveys show more than half of women who experience sexual violence are churchgoers.

But as gender equality transforms the workplace, the government, and the home, the church stands apart as a largely closed system to reform. For decades, abortion and homosexuality have been the political tentpoles of sexual controversy within Christian communities, built on an established undercurrent of premarital purity and abstinence. Discussion about sexual violence among Christians is rare. When it does happen, it is akin to AIDS and human trafficking in its “otherization” — it is a tragedy that happens “somewhere else.”

In the dirty swampland of human sexuality, sexual violence — rape, abuse, and the behaviors that lead there — remains the darkest, most shameful stain. Todd Akin’s imbecilic comment last August that when raped, women’s bodies have “ways to just shut that whole thing down” revealed his deep misunderstanding of women’s anatomy and a tone-deafness to the trauma of rape. As a former divinity student from a theological seminary in the Presbyterian tradition, his statements also shed light on a particularly potent combination of male-centric theology, patriarchal culture, and a fixation on prudishness.

This strain persists in various articulations across denominations, from the numerous abuse scandals in the Catholic Church to popular Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll's cringe-inducing "sexposés" and tips for wives pleasuring husbands. The bad apples in leadership, distressingly, are plentiful enough. What’s arguably more distressing is the vast relative silence of otherwise-trustworthy faith leaders on this front.

What explains their reluctance? According to sexual violence advocates, activists, and clergy members themselves, there is extreme pressure in church leadership against calling out sexual violence in their own communities. “Many just don’t want to believe it happens,” said Paparella, now Director & Organizer for Women’s Advocacy at the United Methodist General Board of Church & Society in Washington, D.C.

Reverend Harry Knox, President of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, agreed. “It’s real for the pastor. We know when preaching whom we are preaching to, or about. It’s easy for clergy to don clerical garb and make speeches — it’s much harder to talk with our own congregants about our children, our norms; whether our practices make churches places of safety. Many do not feel equipped to properly take on the weight of these questions for their parishes. And well, if we can’t do it — who can?”

It may be an emotional challenge for clergy to tackle, but a degree of professional loyalty also contributes to systemic inertia. “Most [denominations] don’t want to open their congregations up because of the Catholic Church’s horrific track record,” Paparella said. “They don’t want to be seen the same way. But this silence is what’s killing the church.”

Indeed, issues like sexual violence can be “so fraught with moral and emotional tension” in congregations, Knox said, that church leaders tend to choose the path of least resistance. “What can our congregation do that won’t be controversial?” What’s taught from the pulpit extends to the pews, and stories of sexual violence within a faith community often feature the silence or tepid response of fellow parishioners.

“Survivors don’t tend to go to faith communities for help,” Victoria Ferguson, founder of Kindred Moxie, a faith-based domestic violence advocacy network in Atlanta, Ga., said. “Clergy have not been their allies. There’s not a history of support. Where else do they go?” In a culture that emphasizes victim-skepticism and self-doubt (“I always thought the victims of domestic violence were people who struggled with low self-esteem,” Ferguson said. “I had no idea it was happening to women just like me”), speaking up requires not only gumption, but education. “There is just a tremendous amount of information that faith communities do not have,” Ferguson noted.

In many communities, the same skittish blueprint for sex (to wit: don’t do it until you’re married, and then all sex is good) is applied without much nuance or elaboration to youth, young adults, and 30-somethings alike. In others, factual misconceptions, even well-meaning, are promulgated in youth group culture and last well into adulthood.

For example, the myth that rape is what happens when you make bad choices — the logical consequence of walking home alone, or showing too much skin, or hanging around the wrong friends — is pervasive, but incorrect. In reality, abuse is widespread across all demographic lines: 1 in 6 women will experience sexual assault. And the vast majority of abuse comes at the hand of acquaintance: 60 percent of rapes and 73 percent of sexual assaults are committed by someone known to the victim.

More broadly at issue is how churches understand rape. In public society and secular institutions, rape is talked about as a power issue, more than a sexual one. Rape, intimate partner abuse, and other forms of sexual violence are couched in the language of distorted masculinity, or entrenched hierarchy, or domination and control, or creating healthy gender empowerment. When it comes to Christian institutions, however, rape tends to fall into the ample “sex is sin” bin, and gets swept away from conversation.

Without mentorship or honest conversation about sex, generations of Christians are growing up with no guidance for engaging others with frankness and compassion in the inevitable complexities and compromises of real life. Combine a proclivity for silence about sexual contact with a belief system that has yet to reconcile men and women as fully equal, and what results is a church struggling with abuse, sexual intimidation, and rape.

But the winds are starting to change. And it is lay people, along with church leaders, who are driving this change. Movements like Kindred Moxie are gaining steam within faith communities, and advocacy initiatives from groups within denominations (like Paparella’s) and from without (like Knox’s) are beginning to demonstrate long-term impact. Increasingly, where clergy are silent, individuals like Rachel Held Evans and Ann Voskamp have used their influence to share stories and begin speaking into the void.

Platforms like these, to share stories and support, help survivors find each other and their own voice, Knox said. “Women and young adults are feeling more empowered. They’re not in isolation the way they used to be.” What’s needed to further nurture these voices? “Diligence and creativity,” Paparella said. “That’s the nature of social justice work. It’s not sexy. It’s a tedious ongoing effort to change culture.”

For Ferguson, the best thing is encouragement. “Community leaders respond when we talk positively about what we want to happen; what healing looks like and how to get there. We [have to] ask, ‘How do we create what’s positive and right?’”

After Steubenville, Christians within the church asked: When a young girl gets raped at a party, where are the faith leaders? But we cannot ask that question without its partner: When a woman in our faith community is abused and told by fellow believers to stay with her partner but pray for his recovery — where, too, are the faith leaders?

“We just have to be there, and keep putting one foot in front of the other,“ Paparella said. “We’re moving. Slowly — but this change has roots. And I believe in resurrection.”

Read about the Catholic Church sex problems here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/

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One Billion Rising

One Billion Rising

Motto	Strike, Dance, Rise!
Key people	Eve Ensler
Website	onebillionrising.org

Founder of the movement Eve Ensler in March 2011

One Billion Rising is a global campaign by women, for women.^[1]^[2]^[3] The movement calls for an end to violence, and for justice and gender equality.

ONE IN THREE WOMEN ON THE PLANET WILL BE RAPED OR BEATEN IN HER LIFETIME.

THAT IS ONE BILLION WOMEN.

IN 2013, ONE BILLION WOMEN AND MEN SHOOK THE EARTH THROUGH DANCE TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.

THIS YEAR, ON 14 FEBRUARY 2014 WE ARE CALLING ON WOMEN AND MEN EVERYWHERE TO HARNESS THEIR POWER AND IMAGINATION TO RISE FOR JUSTICE.

IMAGINE, ONE BILLION WOMEN RELEASING THEIR STORIES, DANCING AND SPEAKING OUT AT THE PLACES WHERE THEY NEED JUSTICE, WHERE THEY NEED AN END TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.

JOIN US!

RISE. RELEASE. DANCE!

One-day event

On February 14, 2013, a one-day event was held, a call for one billion women around the world to join together to dance in a show of collective strength.^[4] The event was held on the 15th anniversary of the V-Day movement.^[5] The word "billion" refers the statistic that one in three women will be raped or beaten in their lifetime, or about one billion.^[6]

On September 20, 2012, people from 160 countries had signed up to take part in the campaign.^[7] On February 14, 2013, the rally was held in more than 190 countries.^[8]

The campaign was initiated by playwright and activist Eve Ensler (known for her play The Vagina Monologues), and her
organization V-Day.^[9] The campaign was in part inspired by the Todd Akin 'legitimate rape' and pregnancy comment controversy. Ensler, shocked at Akin's statement, wrote an open letter in response.^[10]

Around 5,000 organizations have joined the campaign, which has also been aided or endorsed by religious ministers, movement builders, actors Rosario Dawson, Robert Redford,^[11]^[12] and Stella Creasy, British Labour Co-operative politician.^[13]

In a video message dedicated to Jyoti Singh, the Indian student who died in December after she was gang-raped by six men on a Delhi bus, Anoushka Shankar disclosed she had been abused by a trusted friend of her parents over several years when she was a child. In her message she said she did not believe she will ever recover from the abuse she had suffered: "...as a woman I find I'm frequently living in fear, afraid to walk along at night, afraid to answer a man who asks for the time, afraid I'm going to be judged or treated in ways based on the way I might choose to dress or the make up I might choose to wear, and you know, enough is enough. I'm rising for women like Jyoti, for women like her, with the amazing women of my country I'm rising for the child in me who I don't think will ever fully recover from what happened to her."^[14]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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^ Anoushka Shankar reveals sexual abuse as child - Telegraph

External links

Official website
One Billion Rising at the website for the V-Day movement
List of cooperating organizations
Endorsement video message by Robert Redford at the The Guardian newspaper website
September 24, 2012 video interview with Eve Ensler at Democracy Now!
February 14, 2013 video interview with Eve Ensler at Democracy Now!

Dear One Billion Rising Activists

8 July 2013 > V-Day > Philippines, USA

This is Eve.

Let me begin by sharing my deepest gratitude, admiration, and respect for every single one of you who rose and danced with OBR in 207 countries, making it the biggest global action in the history of the world.

It was an extraordinary thing and we are only just beginning to see the fruits of this blossoming.

I want to introduce you to Monique Wilson – an extraordinary V-Day activist for 15 years. She literally got all 7,000 islands in the Philippines to rise and dance. She has graciously agreed to be the world coordinator, director, facilitator, activator for One Billion Rising.

Hi, this is Monique, I am so excited to be part of the V-Day team, and in such profound awe and admiration of all the coordinators, organizers and risers of OBR 2013. The unprecedented diversity, the creative energy, and the grassroots groups and communities at the forefront of actions across the globe were incredibly moving and radically inspiring.

Eve:
Many of you wrote to tell us that you wanted this year to go further, to go deeper, to create more concrete actions. You wanted to address impunity and the lack of accountability as significant factors in the perpetuation of violence against women. You shared with us the need to create and uphold laws, the need to ensure that judgments made in courts hold.

Monique:
You wrote to address the importance of rehabilitating prisoners with humanity and dignity so that degradation and humiliation do not lead to more violence. You wrote to say that ending patriarchy through education and through the creation of an active vision of a social justice was a priority in your communities. You expressed the urgency to see a form of justice that can transform mindsets.

Eve:
So today, we are thrilled to launch ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE 2014.
What is the campaign about?

Monique:
ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE is a global call to women survivors of violence and those who love them to come together in community and solidarity outside places where they are entitled to justice.

Eve:
It is a call to survivors to break the silence and release the stories of both pain and hope – through art, dance, marches, ritual, song, spoken word, testimonies and whatever way best expresses their outrage, their need, their desire, and their joy. The path to justice begins with acknowledging and recognizing the violence – letting it be known.
This year we will RISE, RELEASE AND DANCE.

RISE
Gather in your communities and learn about its particular violence against women issues, including exploring what its root causes are.

Be in discussion in your communities about what justice means to you in your context.

Speak your story out loud for the first time and be heard.

Prosecute governments responsible for violence against women and demand reparations and apologies.

Hold colleges accountable for not prosecuting rapists on campuses.

Demand more humane working conditions, and protest against corporate greed that keeps women in poverty and subject to economic violence.

Shame and blame religious institutions for childhood sexual abuse, or for being obstacles to women’s rights.

Read about the Catholic Church sex problems here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/

Learn about justice by studying the roots of patriarchy.

Focus on mining, militarization and trafficking, all of which instigate violence towards women.

Organize women’s courts and flash courts outside courtrooms….

THE LIST IS ENDLESS. GROW IT WITH US

Where: On February 14, gather outside the places where you are entitled to justice – colleges, schools, police stations, local governments, courtrooms, places of worship, military courts, embassies, your work places, your homes….

RELEASE
Each community will find and determine the various forms of release. It can be creative, political, outrageous, audacious, bold ideas that fuse creative energy with political action. Make public or anonymous testimonies, beat drums, bring perpetrators to justice, create art, songs, poems out of survival stories, create rituals, march, make theater, burn effigies, wail, scream, do silent vigils, fast, celebrate justice that has been served. Honor grassroots women leaders who have devoted their lives to women.

And when that is done, DANCE and DANCE AND DANCE.

Dance is both a personal and collective action – the purest and most powerful expression of art and activism. Last year DANCE released a joyful and radical energy and reminded us that there is a mystical, feminine energy about to be born fully into the world.

Now is the time. On February 14, Rise, Release, Dance for Justice.

Love and Solidarity,

Eve and Monique
Eve Ensler, V-Day Founder
Monique Wilson, One Billion Rising Director

The Campaign

On 14 February 2013, one billion people in 207 countries rose and danced to demand an end to violence against women and girls.

On 14 February 2014*, we are escalating our efforts, calling on women and men everywhere to RISE, RELEASE, DANCE, and demand JUSTICE!

ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE is a global call to women survivors of violence and those who love them to gather safely in community outside places where they are entitled to justice – court houses, police stations, government offices, school administration buildings, work places, sites of environmental injustice, military courts, embassies, places of worship, homes, or simply public gathering places where women deserve to feel safe but too often do not. It is a call to survivors to break the silence and release their stories – politically, spiritually, outrageously – through art, dance, marches, ritual, song, spoken word, testimonies and whatever way feels right.

Our stories have been buried, denied, erased, altered, and minimized by patriarchal systems that allow impunity to reign. Justice begins when we speak, release, and acknowledge the truth in solidarity and community. ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE is an invitation to break free from confinement, obligation, shame, guilt, grief, pain, humiliation, rage, and bondage.

The campaign is a recognition that we cannot end violence against women without looking at the intersection of poverty, racism, war, the plunder of the environment, capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy. Impunity lives at the heart of these interlocking forces.

It is a call to bring on revolutionary justice.

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Begin to imagine what Rising for Justice looks like for you, your community, your city, your country.

Our website will expand in September with more features and we look forward to highlighting your ideas.

*Attention Canadian Activists

In Canada the Annual Women’s Memorial March for The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, which has been taking place for twenty two years, is held every February 14th to honor and grieve for the thousands of women who are still missing or who have been murdered. We deeply respect the Women’s Memorial Marches and are asking all of our One Billion Rising Canada organizers to NOT DO their Rising events on February 14th. Instead we are asking you to hold your One Billion Rising events on March 8th, International Women’s Day. Please visit www.womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com to learn more about the Women’s Memorial Marches.

LEARN MORE about ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE:

READ Announcement Press Release >
READ Letter from Eve Ensler & Monique Wilson To Activists >
In 2013, We Shook The Earth, See What One Billion People Rising Looked Like Here >

V-Day’s One Billion Rising Is Biggest Global Action Ever To End Violence Against Women And Girls
http://onebillionrising.org/news/entry/v-days-one-billion-rising-is-biggest-global-action-ever-to-end-violence-aga

Breaking The Male Code: After Steubenville, A Call To Action
http://www.vday.org/node/3054

Rise Against Impunity
http://onebillionrising.org/news/entry/rise-against-impunity

Dear All… A Letter From Eve in Congo
http://www.vday.org/dearall

We ROSE for VAWA & It PASSED!
http://www.vday.org/node/3047

Experience The RISING: Videos Of Risings From Around the World!
http://2013.onebillionrising.org/livestream

One Billion Rising: ‘The Time Has Come’ (The Telegraph)
http://onebillionrising.org/news/entry/one-billion-rising-the-time-has-come

THOUSANDS TO DANCE IN PROTEST VS VIOLENCE ON WOMEN, GIRL CHILDREN (davaotoday.com)
http://onebillionrising.org/news/entry/thousands-to-dance-in-protest-vs-violence-on-women-girl-children

Global Campaign Targeting Violence Against Women (Taiwan)
http://onebillionrising.org/news/entry/global-campaign-targeting-violence-against-women

Eve Ensler: “Alla Violenza Sulle Donne Dico Basta Ballando In Piazza”
http://onebillionrising.org/news/entry/eve-ensler-alla-violenza-sulle-donne-dico-basta-ballando-in-piazza

One Billion Raped, One Billion Rising (Be The Change)
http://onebillionrising.org/news/entry/one-billion-raped-one-billion-rising

Eve Ensler : Danser Contre Les Violences Faites Aux Femmes
http://onebillionrising.org/news/entry/eve-ensler-danser-contre-les-violences-faites-aux-femmes

One Billion Rising: ‘It’s Like A Feminist Tsunami’ (The Guardian)

http://onebillionrising.org/news/entry/one-billion-rising-its-like-a-feminist-tsunami

Capital Punishment for Rapists Not the Right Solution: Eve Ensler (The New Indian Express)
http://www.vday.org/node/3025

Playwright Eve Ensler to Arrive in Mumbai to Address Meetings on Women’s Rights Issue (The Times of India)
http://www.vday.org/node/3024

MenRISE: WATCH the “Man Prayer”
http://www.vday.org/node/3036

Eve Ensler and Monique Wilson campaign to stop violence against women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uazpdEzJGlU

NEW: One Billion Rising Philippines Short Film!

http://www.vday.org/node/3011

Anne Hathaway Supports One Billion Rising in Glamour – So Can YOU!
http://www.vday.org/node/3003

Watch Eve Ensler on Democracy NOW!
http://www.vday.org/node/3000

Eve Ensler Rising (The Nation)
http://www.thenation.com/article/171127/eve-ensler-rising#

The State of Female America, November 27th in NYC
http://www.vday.org/node/2980

WATCH: Eve Ensler on a New Women’s Movement (CNN)
http://www.vday.org/node/2977

V-Day’s One Billion Rising Campaign Unveils New Song And Music Video: “Break The Chain”
http://onebillionrising.org/news/entry/v-days-one-billion-rising-campaign-unveils-new-song-and-music-video-break-t

BREAK THE CHAIN
http://onebillionrising.org/blog/we-have-an-anthem

“I Am Rising…” Video Series Launches on “The Guardian” and OneBillionRising.org
http://www.vday.org/node/2971

‘Together we can end violence against women’ by Eve Ensler – (The Guardian)
http://www.vday.org/node/2970

V-Day Announces The Escalation Of Global One Billion Rising Campaign
http://onebillionrising.org/news/entry/v-day-announces-the-escalation-of-global-one-billion-rising-campaign

ONE BILLION RISING (short video)
http://onebillionrising.org/blog/entry/one-billion-rising-trailer

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Sunshine: Cesar raped me on Mother's Day

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/08/13/13/sunshine-cesar-raped-me-mothers-day

ABS-CBNnews.com

Posted at 08/13/2013 2:33 PM | Updated as of 08/13/2013 8:39 PM

Celebrity couple Cesar Montano and Sunshine Cruz

MANILA (UPDATED) – Actress Sunshine Cruz filed a complaint-affidavit before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court on Tuesday morning in an Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children case against her husband, actor Cesar Montano.
Among the claims the actress made was an alleged incident of rape last May.

The “Dugong Buhay” star recalled that on Mother's Day, May 12, Montano allegedly "barged" into her residence, "where she was alone, and then violently attacked her, employed physical violence and raped" her.

Cruz was accompanied by her legal counsel, Atty. Bonifacio Alentajan, in the filing of the case.

The actress claims Montano has committed -- and still continues to commit -- acts of violence and verbal abuse against her and her three daughters.

Cruz described Montano as "a very domineering, philandering husband that demanded full submission and obedience" from her.

She also detailed a recent affair between her husband and starlet Krista Miller which, she said, had adverse effects on her daughters, who had read the text messages exchanged between Montano and Miller.

Cruz said her daughter also witnessed her father receive a text photo of Miller in a bikini.

In addition to these claims of abuse, Cruz said she has been denied access to her children since July 29, despite her efforts for them to be brought home.

“Bilang tatay siya ng mga anak ko, as much as possible, we want to protect the person. But since the 29th, hindi ko na rin nakita ang mga anak ko. Hindi ko alam kung bakit ganun kaya I decided to do this already,” she said.

Cruz said this was the trigger for her to file this case against her husband.

“Kasi kapag nasa work naman ako, hinahayaan kong kunin niya ang mga bata. Pero hindi na niya sinauli, puro tomorrow, tomorrow. 'Yung tomorrow na 'yun tumagal na nang tumagal hanggang sa I realized na he’s not going to give back my kids,” she said.

Cruz said she is willing to lose everything except her kids.

“Napakahirap sa akin kasi I’ve been a devoted wife and a mom to my children. Sinakripisyo ko nga lahat para sa mga anak ko tapos parang pusa ka na lang na tinanggalan ng mga kuting. Masakit sa akin ang mga nangyayari,” she said.

Cruz has been granted a temporary protection order by the QC RTC weeks ago, prohibiting Montano to come within 300 meters of her.

A petition for a permanent protection order (PPO) is currently being heard at the QC RTC. A second hearing is scheduled on August 15.

Last January, Cruz announced that she has decided to live apart from Montano, her husband of 13 years, for good. This after Montano was romantically linked to Miller, who recently appeared in a film with the 50-year-old actor.

Before the controversial breakup involving Miller, the celebrity couple, by Cruz's admission, had gone through several rough patches due to Montano's questionable relationships with his co-workers.

ABS-CBN News asked Montano for his side on the issue, but the actor opted not to give any statement for now

. -- Report by Ginger Conejero, ABS-CBN News

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