On 14 February 2014, by 7am, at City Park, Wuse 2, Abuja, M.A.D Positive International will join with activists around the world for ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE. The campaign will build upon the energy and momentum that was created on February 14, 2013 when one billion activists in 207 countries and territories came together to rise, strike, and dance, in the biggest mass action in human history, to demand an end to violence against women and girls.
This year, the organization will focus on the issue of justice for all survivors of gender violence, and ending the rampant impunity that prevails globally.
Naomi Ikhureigbe, curator of MAD Positive said in a statement, “ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE is a call to women, men, and youth around the world to gather safely on 14 February 2014 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.
“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”, she added.
To learn more about One Billion Rising for Justice Nigeria, call +2348038977095, +2348057587087 orx e-mail the organization at [email protected]