About V-Day
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 worldwide violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.
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 with Amnesty International on the missing and murdered women of Juarez, 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 and the Indian Country Project.
Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual
benefit performances of "The Vagina 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 around the world, educating
millions of people about the reality of 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.
· V‑Day is an organized response against violence towards women.
· V‑Day is a vision: We see a world where women live safely and freely.
· V‑Day is a demand: Rape, battery, incest, genital mutilation and sexual slavery must end now.
· V‑Day is a spirit: We believe women should spend their lives creating and thriving rather than surviving or recovering from terrible atrocities.
· V‑Day is a catalyst: By raising money and consciousness, it will unify and strengthen existing anti-violence efforts. Triggering far-reaching awareness, it will lay the groundwork for new educational, protective, and legislative endeavors throughout the world.
· V‑Day is a process: We will work as long as it takes. We will not stop until the violence stops.
· V‑Day is a day: We proclaim Valentine's Day as V‑Day, to celebrate women, vagina-friendly men, and end violence against women and girls.
· V‑Day is a fierce, wild, unstoppable movement and community.
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Information obtained on this page could be found at
www.vday.org