That this Council:-
(a) fully endorses the One Billion Rising Campaign which will build upon the energy and momentum that was created in 2013 when one billion activists in 207 countries came together to strike, dance, and rise to end violence against women and girls;
(b) recalls that the campaign recognises that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime which amounts to one billion women; and
(c) notes that One Billion Rising for Justice is a call to women, men, and young people around the world to gather safely on 14 February 2014 outside places where they are entitled to justice – court houses, police stations, government offices, school administration buildings, work places, sites of environmental injustice, military courts, embassies, places of worship, homes, or simply public gathering places where women deserve to feel safe but too often do not.
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RESOLVED: On the Motion of Councillor Jayne Dunn, seconded by Councillor Nikki Bond, that this Council:-
(a) fully endorses the One Billion Rising Campaign which will build upon the energy and momentum that was created in 2013 when one billion activists in 207 countries came together to strike, dance, and rise to end violence against women and girls;
(b) recalls that the campaign recognises that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime which amounts to one billion women; and
(c) notes that One Billion Rising for Justice is a call to women, men, and young people around the world to gather safely on 14 February 2014 outside places where they are entitled to justice – court houses, police stations, government offices, school administration buildings, work places, sites of environmental injustice, military courts, embassies, places of worship, homes, or simply public gathering places where women deserve to feel safe but too often do not. |