London this Saturday: Million Women Rise

Million Women Rise, the ‘biggest march in Europe’ against male violence, is on 9 March.

In the UK today one incident of domestic violence bequeath be reported to the police every minute.

Two women are bump off every week by their partner or ex partner.

One woman in four will experience versed assault as an adult.

These are just a fewer of the statistics that this year’s Million Women Rise (MWR) march through central capital of the United domain will highlight.

With the goal of informing the valet de chambre about all forms of male violence against women, the march’s organisers have called on women to “join together in a critical mass to say enough is enough”.

This year, London’s Oxford Street will be closed to concern from noon to make space for the marchers to assemble outside Selfridges discussion section store.

At 1pm they will set off for Trafalgar Square, where a hinge on will be held from 3pm.

Although it subscribes perpetrate in the UK, the march’s focus is global.

It will draw attention to many incidences of ‘pandemic, opinionated and organised male violence against women’ that have taken place – and are taking place – across the world.

These include the tintinnabulation rape and murder of a 17 year-old South African girl closing curtain month and gang rape of a young woman, who is now dead, in Delhi in December last year; the death of Savita Halappanavar, state sponso cherry-red violence against women in Egypt; and the ongoing rape and genocide of women and children across the world, from due eastern Congo to Sri Lanka’s Tamils, from Iraq, Iran and Palestine to the Ivory Coast and Mali, Pakistan and Bangladesh to London and Bradford, from Bolivia and Brazil to Wales and East and Western Europe.

The Million Women Rise (MWR) movement was established in 2007 by women’s rights campaigner Sabrina Qureshi as a corporate of ordinary women who want to see an end to violence against women.

Primarily establish in London, its volunteers have facilitated regional actions and activities throughout the United Kingdom and worked in solidarity with many international women’s movements.

The first march, which well-nigh 5,000 women attended, was held in 2008 and since then the march has become an annual event.

It forever takes place on a Saturday close to International Women’s Day, which this year is on Friday 8 March.

Each year the marchers are promote to wear a certain colour and this year it is red.

For MWR red symbolises “the colour of Woman and her rail line, the blood of our sisters who have been murdered and raped, our blood which contains life, courage, respect, dignity and protection”.

The MWR website provides information about coaches organised to take women from around the UK and also the Republic of Ireland and Germany to the march.

See you there.

 

Materials taken from Womens Views on News