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V-Day's global vision

V-Day is an organised response to violence against women

V-Day is a vision of a world where women live free, safe, equally and with dignity.

V-Day is a spirit. We believe women should spend their life creating and thriving, rather than surviving victimisation and recovering from atrocities.

V-Day is a determination to end violence against women. We will not stop.

Through ongoing decisions, V-Day will uphold this vision through actions until the violence stops.

V-Day Statement – 2002
Violence against women is happening everywhere. It is local and specific and does not distinguish between class or race, age or location. Rape happens on the streets and in homes throughout the world. Women are beaten in thatched huts, high-rise apartments and inner city estates. Women are sold into sexual slavery every few minutes. Women are burned with acids for refusing to marry and mutilated as little girls. Although the particular forms of violence may vary from culture to culture, we have come to expect it, make room for it and accommodate it, as if it were a given of the human condition. As a result, women spend most of their lives recovering from, resisting or surviving violence rather than creating and thriving.

V-Day is a radical idea, a catalytic force and an invitation
For four years, V-Day has been growing and gathering women from all over the world. There are V-productions in over 31 countries. We have connected with the communities of the raped and murdered from Juarez, Mexico; sex-trafficked women from Paris, Bulgaria and Manila; women who have been date-raped on college campuses all over North America; women honour-killed in Jordan; battered women in the corporate world; genitally-mutilated women in Kenya; the women slowly being made extinct through gender genocide in Afghanistan. Women are responding and joining together in a global community, a global energy that is changing the world.

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