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      'One Billion Rising' in Global Action Against Gender Violence

      People taking to the streets to march, dance, and celebrate unity as they demand justice for women across the world

      Jacob Chamberlain
      Feb 14, 2014

      One billion women, men, and youth from 200 countries joined forces Friday for the second annual "One Billion Rising for Justice" day of action, rising up to demand an end to violence against women and girls across the world.

      "Women are putting their bodies at the site where vulnerabilities intersect," Kimberle Crenshaw, co-founder of the African American Policy Forum, recently toldDemocracy Now! in anticipation of the event. "By that I mean where vulnerability to gender violence, vulnerability to economic exploitation, vulnerability to the drug war -- all these things come together to create unique risks, many times risks that poor women, marginalized women, women of color face."

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