One Billion Rising
View(s):Sri Lanka joins global campaign to stop violence against women and girls
A woman is raped every 90 minutes in Sri Lanka. 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime.
On February 14, One Billion Rising Sri Lanka (OBR Sri Lanka) will join with activists around the world for One Billion Rising, the largest global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.
OBR Sri Lanka is organising a demonstration at Lipton Circus at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday, February 14 followed by a candlelight vigil at the same location at 6 p.m, dedicated to all the women and children who have been abused, harassed, raped and killed. They call on all to attend dressed in black, red or pink to show solidarity with the movement.
The One Billion Rising movement began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than one billion women and girls. On February 14, OBR Sri Lanka will join activists, writers, thinkers, celebrities, and women and men across the world to express outrage, demand change, strike, dance, and rise in defiance of the injustices women suffer, demanding an end at last to violence against women, a press release from the organization said.
The release added: In Sri Lanka, police statistics show that there has been a 6% increase in sexual abuse of women and girls in 2012 with at least 700 incidents of sexual abuse of girls reported in the first half of 2012. These include gang rape and sale of young girls for sexual abuse. It has also been revealed that 90% of women are abused when using public transport. 4000 of the 15,000 cases that are being heard in courts are regarding violence against children.
For more information, please contact OBR Sri Lanka at obrsrilanka@gmail.com or go to https://www.facebook.com/OneBillionRisingSriLanka
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