BISHNUPUR, Feb 14: Women Committee, United NGOs Mission Manipur organized `One Billion Rising Revolution`™ at Moirang Chengei Lampak, Bishnupur District today.
The programme was hosted by New Life Foundation, Thamnapokpi and Association for Rural Development and Women Empowerment Keinou.
In her keynote address, Sobita Mangshatabam, secretary, Women Action for Development (WAD) said that One Billion Rising is a global campaign to end violence against women, rise for justice and promote gender equality.
The campaign, launched on Valentine`™s Day 2012, 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, she said.
She further said that every February, they rise in hundreds of countries across the world to show the local communities and the world what one billion looks like and shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors most often face.
In 2012 the One Billion Rising Campaign culminated in the biggest mass global action to end violence against women every with tens of thousands of events held in more than 190 countries, she said.
The event is being celebrated and a call for one billion women around the world to join to dance in a show of collective strength, she added.
Singing and dancing by women and NGOs representatives were the main highlights of the day.