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February 15, 2013

One Billion Rising: Actions To End Violence Against Women Held in 200 Cities 
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In more than 200 cities around the world on Thursday, people flocked to
the streets to dance as part of the global “One Billion Rising”
campaign to end violence against women and girls. Global actions
included marches, rallies, flash mobs, workshops and lots of dancing.
One country at the forefront of the global uprisings was India, where
mass protests had previously erupted over the gang-rape and murder of a
young woman on a bus in New Delhi. Hundreds joined the "One Billion
Rising" action in Johannesburg, South Africa, where, on that same day,
the girlfriend of Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius was shot dead on the
outskirts of the capital. Pistorius, known globally as the first
double-leg amputee to run in the Olympics, appeared in court today to
face a single charge of murder. But on Thursday, protesters like Yvette
Raphael were more focused on his alleged victim, the 30-year-old model
Reeva Steenkamp.

Yvette Raphael: “A woman died, a woman died again and I am angry, I am
angry that a woman died today. Whether Oscar was guilty or not I cannot
say, but all I can say a woman died and it's one woman too many."

 

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