In the run up to International Women day on 8th March the campaign one billion rising is still alive in Patna. The ground of Bihar Vidyapeeth echoed with the voice of approximately 2000 women and girls from different corners of Bihar who stood together for their rights and to stop violence against women on the […]
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 […]
Today in Patna on Valentine’s Day some four thousand women ( and a sprinkling of men and transgenders ) from all walks of life gathered to celebrate “One Billion Rising” at Bihar Vidyapeeth near the historic Sadaquat Ashram (where freedom movement started). This year in 2017, one billion rising is focusing on the exploitation of […]
