Imagine a World Without Violence

Imagine a world without violence … and make it come true. V-Day’s Global Vision:

V-Day is a vision of human life where girls and women live free, safe, equal and with dignity.

V-Day is a spirit affirming that life should be lived, creating and thriving, rather than surviving victimization and recovering from atrocities.

V-Day is a determination to end violence against women. We will not stop.
Through ongoing decisions, V-Day will manifest this vision through actions until the violence stops.

V-Day Statement - 2002 Violence against women is happening everywhere. It is local and specific. It does not distinguish between class or race or age or locality. Rape happens in back alleys, plush hotel suites and college dorms. Women are beaten in thatched huts, high-rise apartments and trailer parks. They are sold into sexual slavery every few minutes. They are burned with acids for refusing to marry, mutilated as little girls. Although the particular forms of violence may vary from culture to culture, we have come to expect it, make room for it, and accommodate it, as if it were a given of the human condition. As a result, women spend most of their lives recovering from, resisting or surviving violence rather than creating and thriving.

V-Day is a radical idea, a catalytic force, a deeper imagining, an invitation. It is both the vision of the place and the energy necessary to transport us to the place where women are free and safe. For four years, V-Day has been growing and gathering women from all over the world. There are V-productions in over 31 countries. We have connected with the communities of the raped and murdered women from Juarez, Mexico, sex-trafficked women from Paris, Bulgaria and Manila, women who have been date-raped on college campuses all over North America, women honor-killed in Jordan, battered women in the corporate world, genitally-mutilated women in Kenya, the women slowly being made extinct through gender genocide in Afghanistan. Women are responding and joining together in a global community, a global energy that is changing the world.

This year, V-Day is spreading like an antidote to the virus of violence. We are going further, we are going everywhere. We are moving into town halls, church basements, college auditoriums, and union halls. We are inviting women and men to host V-Day wherever they live, to bring “The Vagina Monologues” for one night to their communities, wherever women need to be safe, whatever the venue – a living room, an amphitheater, an open valley or a stadium.

Hundreds of calls are already coming from places as varied as London , Harlem , Kosovo , Israel , Milwaukee , South Africa and Antarctica .

Join us. Make your community a Rape Free Zone. How do YOU envision a world without violence?