UWE President
Dear University Women of Europe,
I write to you in order to inform you that EWL is participating to the worldwide event ONE BILLION RISING (OBR), initiated by V-Day and taking place on 14 February 2013. As you may know, the aim of the event is to rise up and raise awareness on violence against women and its pervasive presence in women’s lives.
EWL has planned to do a flash mob and participate, together with other Brussels-based organizations and individuals, to a free dance. EWL created an original song, “Rise up, Stand up”, and choreography on it for this flash mob. During the last Board Meeting, we made a picture of you with a paper stating why you would dance and rise. With these photos we prepared a diapo presenting the song:
· Diapo of the song “Rise up, Stand-up”
· Lyrics : see attached file
· Choreography for the flash mob: - In English
- In French
- Full Choreography:
We kindly invite you to mobilize too on 14 February: you can use this song and choreography to invite your members to dance and say no to VAW. It would be great if they could join their efforts together with EWL national members and create joyful and powerful events.
As you know, among EWL political priorities regarding violence against women are:
- EU Ratification of the CoE Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
- EU deciding for a European Year on violence against women
- EU providing for a common European strategy to tackle violence against women.
One Billion Rising events could have a big impact in terms of our visibility and awareness raising among the population and European and National institutions on the issue.
Please feel free to use EWL logo. The more we are, the more pervasive our message can be. We want women in Europe to let their voice be heard on this massive violation.
I suggest you consult OBR website, www.onebillionrising.org , where you can get a lot of information on how people and organizations are mobilizing all around the world, download a toolkit and insert your own event.
You can follow our news:
· of course on www.womenlobby.org and on EWL Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/European-Womens-Lobby/169340673246
· but also on the Facebook page of ONE BILLION RISING BRUSSELS EUROPE http://www.facebook.com/groups/419416888122067/
Please, keep informing us about your event, as we would like to give visibility of all events of our members in Europe through our website and FB page!
For any other information, please do not hesitate to contact me or Colette (detroy@womenlobby.org).
Best regards,
Valentina Brogna (Ms.)
Communication Coordinator of EWL’s actions for One Billion Rising
European Women's Lobby / Lobby européen des femmes
T: (+32) 02/217 90 20 · F: (+32) 02/219 84 51 · E: brogna@womenlobby.org·
A: 18, rue Hydraulique, B-1210 Brussels/Bruxelles, Belgium/Belgique ·
The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is the largest umbrella organisation of women’s associations in the European Union (EU), working to promote women’s rights and equality between women and men. EWL membership extends to organisations in all 27 EU member states and three of the five candidate countries, as well as to 20 European-wide bodies, representing a total of more than 2500 organisations.
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