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About The Vagina Monologues |
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V-Day is
a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is
a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness,
raise
money and revitalize the spirit of existing
anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates
broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women
and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital
mutilation
(FGM) and sexual slavery.
Through V-Day campaigns, local
volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances
of TheVagina Monologues to raise
awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own
communities. In 2004, over 2000 V-Day benefit events were presented
by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating
millions of people about the reality of violence against women
and girls.
Performance is just the beginning. V-Day stages
large-scale benefits and produces innovative gatherings, films
and campaigns
to educate and change social attitudes towards violence against
women including the documentary Until the Violence Stops; community
briefings on the missing and murdered women of Juárez,
Mexico; the December 2003 V-Day delegation
trip to Israel, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan; the Afghan Women's
Summit; the March 2004 delegation to India; the Stop Rape Contest,
the Indian Country Project, and Love Your Tree.
In Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, V-Day commits
ongoing support to build movements and anti-violence networks.
Working
with local organizations, V-Day provided
hard-won funding that helped open the first shelters for women
in Egypt and Iraq, sponsored annual workshops and
three national campaigns in Afghanistan, convened the "Confronting
Violence" conference of South Asian
women leaders, and donated satellite-phones to Afghan women
to keep lines of communication open and action plans moving
forward. Beginning Fall 2004 from
Cairo, VDay will work in-depth
to build networks ending violence against women and girls in
Egypt, Sudan, Morocco,
Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
The V-Day movement
is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 76 countries
from Europe to Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and all of North
America. V-Day,
a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots,
national and international organizations and programs that
work to stop violence against women and girls. In its first
year of incorporation (2001), V-Day was named one of Worth
Magazine's "100
Best Charities." In seven years, the V-Day movement has
raised over $25 million.
The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina. |
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