February 14, 2013
Halte aux Violences Domestiques
Geoffroy de Boismenu
Amnesty International
Offset, circa 2007
Paris, France
28696
Translation:
Stop Domestic Violence
Violence against women is a universal sport.
Valentine’s Day, February 14, has long been used
to evoke expressions of love—while simultaneously stimulating the economy —with
the exchange of cards, flowers, candy and candlelit dinners. But the romantic veneer of the one day
a year called Valentine’s Day overlooks the more brutal reality of daily
domestic violence. But violence
against women is an international epidemic, and the perpetrators are family,
friends and strangers.
From Valentine’s Day to V-Day
February 14, 2013, is also the 15th anniversary of V-Day, a global activist movement to end
violence against women and girls.
V-Day was founded in 1998 by author, playwright and activist Eve Ensler,
whose acclaimed 1996 The Vagina
Monologues is credited with inspiring the formation of V-Day. V-Day
generates broad attention for the fight to stop violence against women and
girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and
sex slavery.
V-Day is now celebrated all over the world—in 2012, over 5,800 V-Day
benefit events took place, educating millions of people about the reality of
violence against women and girls. In conjunction with the 15th anniversary,
V-Day launched its most ambitious campaign to date—ONE BILLION RISING.
The V-Day website explains the campaign: “The concept of the
campaign is simple. If you take into account the statistic that 1 out of 3
women will experience violence in her lifetime, you are left with the
staggering statistic that over 1 billion women on this planet will be impacted
by violence. On V-Day's 15th Anniversary, 2.14.13, we are inviting ONE BILLION
women and those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to
this violence. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our
numbers, our solidarity across borders.”
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