Eight years before in 2012 people across the world came together to express their outrage, to strike and RISE in defiance of the injustices women suffer, demanding an end of violence against women.

According to a survey 1 in 3 women across the planet are beaten or raped during her lifetime. That’s ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS.

One Billion Rising is the biggest mass action to end violence against women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence) in human history. It started in 2012 by Eve Ensler to end rape and any kind of violence against women as a part of the V-Day movement (14^th February) worldwide.

In Bihar it started in 2013 where people especially women from all corners of Bihar came together to raise their voice to stop violence against women. In the first year of the campaign around 4,000 women and girls assembled in capital of Bihar, Patna to take the vow to fight for injustices against women.

Since then every year One Billion Rising campaign is held in Bihar and all over the world. Women join the campaign, they perform dance, skit, songs, nukkad natak and marking up in one voice to stop violence against women.

Like every year on 14^th February there will be a gathering at Bihar Vidyapeeth Kurji, Patna to celebrate One Billion Rising. The theme for this year is RISE.RESIST.UNITE.

  Bihar, one billion rising, women, WOMEN EMPOWERMENT